This documents the installation of GNU/Linux on a Fujitsu-Siemens notebook Amilo D. The distribution was SuSE 7.3 (Kernel 2.4.10). A previous effort with Slackware 8.0 (Kernel 2.2.19) could be found here.
Disclaimer: This is NOT an official site of Fujitsu-Siemens! It documents the personal experience of the author, without any warranty!
This is a cute looking notebook in metallic blue-gray. It makes
the notebook look friendly and light but also gives a cheap impression.
The coating is robust though, it allowed me to pull out the horrible
"Designed for Windows 2000" sticker!
With 327 x 286 x 42 mm this is no midget. For that you get a broad
robust keyboard with ample space to rest your palms.
There are some special keys for CD listening, e-mail notification etc. built right at the front, which I find unelegent. Apparantly some models of Amilo do not have them.
The LCD panel, powered by a different (rechargeable) battery, indicating
battery state, HD, PCMCIA activity, etc. is very useful.
| Model | Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo D CY 20 (FY 20?) | |
|---|---|---|
| CPU | Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) 1.0 GHz (996.325 MHz) | Desktop CPU /proc/cpuinfo |
| BIOS | Phoenix BIOS V1.7 | |
| Chipset | VIA PN133, VT8603(North Bridge), VT686B (South Bridge) | |
| Cache | 256 KB second-level cache | |
| RAM | 256 MB | |
| Display | 14.1" TFT | XGA, 1024x768, 60 Hz |
| Graphics | S3 Savage 4, upto 32 MB shared memory | In VIA PN133 (VT8603) integrated |
| Harddisk | IBM-DJSA-210, ATA DISK drive 10.0 GB | 10056 MB w/384KiB Cache, CHS=1222/255/63 |
| CD-ROM | TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-C2502, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive | CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, Combo DVD/CD-RW |
| PCMCIA | O2Micro OZ6933 | |
| Ethernet | Accton Technology 1216.12161119 | EN2242 Series Fast Ethernet Adapter MiniPCI (10/100 MBit/s) |
| Modem | Lucent LT MiniPCI WinModem | 56K, V.90 |
| Audio | Crysal CS 4299(AC97) | Intergrated in the VIA chipset 'VIA 82C686A at 0x1400, irq 5' |
Here are the Kernel boot messages dmesg.
I've earlier reduced the size of the Windows partition using fips. This is how SuSE "autopartition tool" partitioned the remaining:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 320 2570368+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda2 * 321 324 32130 83 Linux /dev/hda3 325 357 265072+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda4 358 1222 6948112+ 83 Linux
The installation procedure went smoothly. Rather than the suggested "Default system with Office" I choose "Default system" in anticipation of StarOffice 6.
Rather than installing LILO on a floppy as suggested, I've chosen "LILO on MBR", accepted "Kernel boot parameters" enableapic vga=0x0314. "Linear option" and "Activate LILO partition" NOT activated.
The actual transfer of 1003 MB was over in about 5 minutes!
During X installation "LCD Monitor of 1024x768@70Hz" was selected.
The color depth could be chosen between 8/16/24 bit. The 3D
acceleration remains inactive.
Finish and reboot.
Edited /etc/modules.conf to include
alias eth0 tulip .. options tulip options=0
rebooted, lsmod, /etc/rc.d/dhcclient start and it worked!
Note: The # ./build_module script failed initially because the default SuSE installation does not copy the kernel headers. I installed the whole kernel source using yast2 and ran a # make dep, which cured the problem.
The installation went strict according to the docs included in ltmodem:
# cd /usr/local/src # tar xzvf ltmodem-6.00b9.tar.gz # cd ltmodem-6.00b9 # ./build_module # ./ltinst2 # ./autoloadThis creates a device /dev/ttyLT0 and a link /dev/modem pointing to that.
Testing the modules
# insmod -p lt_modem Using /lib/modules/2.2.19/misc/lt_modem.o # insmod -p lt_serial Using /lib/modules/2.2.19/misc/lt_serial.oStarted minicom and it worked!
