Fujitsu/Siemens Amilo-D Laptop Setup with Linux Slackware 8.0 & Suse Linux 8.1




Laptop itself is a metallic blue-gray.



Buttons just below the built-in mouse pad.



LCD Display that is between keyboard and Color LCD screen itself.

I bought the laptop in the Summer of 2002. It comes with fire-wire, 
100/10 ethernet, USB ports and external PS2 mouse port.  It doesn't
have serial ports.


Partitions


I have the laptop setup with three partitions. It has Windows 98,
Linux which this page is about and FreeBSD.


Updates


I did some work on the laptop to get the USB Mouse to work. Eventually,
everything will be USB driven even in Linux.

To get the USB Mouse to work, I added in "/etc/rc.d/rc.modules"

modprobe usbcore
modprobe usb-uhci
modprobe mousedev
modprobe hid

I then changed "/etc/rc.d/rc.gpm"> to comment out the original gpm
line and added "gpm -m /dev/usbmouse -t ps2 -M -m /dev/mouse -t ps2 -R ps2"
which allows both the built-in/external PS/2 mouse to work in addition to
the USB Mouse. It also carries over to X Window. There is an improved
XF86Config file to work with USB Mouse.



Setting Up Network

Need new Tulip Drivers
	- cd to directory "/usr/src/linux-2.2.19/drivers/net"
	- get tulip.tgz and extract in given directory
	- the *.tgz file gives you the files "pci-scan.c",
	  "pci-scan.h", "kern-compat.h"  and "tulip.c"
	- moves the default tulip.c to tulip.c.old
	- edit Makefile
		- look for CONFIG_DEC_ELCP
		- in the lines below, add "pci-scan.o" before "tulip.o"
		  whenever you see "tulip.o"
	- Make sure in "/usr/src/linux/.config" file that 
	  "CONFIG_DEC_ELCP=m" is set
	- recompile the Kernel (see blow)
	- edit "/etc/modules.conf" and make sure these lines are in
		alias eth1 tulip
		options tulip options=0
	- edit "/etc/rc.d/rc.modules"
		- uncomment the line
			/sbin/modprobe tulip


Wireless Network


Wireless network works be default. It uses the PCMCIA interface and
I use the Lucent Orinoco wireless card.



Compile the Kernel

	- This file .config19 has the settings
	  for networking, etc.
	- Rename .config19 to .config
	- To compile the kernel, make sure the .config19
	  fle in the /usr/src/linux directry.
	- cd /usr/src/linux
	- make depend;make clean;make;make install
	- If doing network (Tulip), do "make modules; make modules_install"


Setting Up Modem

	- Get ltmodem-6.00c2.tgz
	- extract the *.tgz file at /usr/src
	- cd ltmodem-6.00c2/source
	- do "./configure"
	- do "make install"
	- edit "/etc/modules.conf" and make sure these lines are in
		alias char-major-62 lt_serial
		alias /dev/ttyLT0 lt_serial (need to be chg'd)
		alias /dev/modem lt_serial
	- edit "/etc/rc.d/rc.modules"
		- add these lines
			modprobe lt_modem
			modprobe lt_serial


Setting Up Sound

	- Get alsa-lib-0.9.0rc2.tgz
	- Get alsa-driver-0.9.0rc2.tgz
	- extract the *.tgz file at /usr/src

	- cd /usr/src/alsa-driver-0.9.0rc2
		- ./configure
		- edit toplevel.config and set to "n" for
		  CONFIG_SND_SB8, CONFIG_SND_SB16, and CONFIG_SND_USB_AUDIO
		- make install

	- cd /usr/src/alsa-lib-0.9.0rc2
		- ./configure --with-cards=via686
		- make
		- make install

	- edit "/etc/rc.d/rc.modules"
		- add these lines
			# Sound doesn't work for the first time, don't
			# know why. Drivers are removed and redone

			modprobe soundcore
			modprobe snd-via686
			modprobe snd-pcm-oss

			rmmod snd-via686 snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm
			rmmod snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-mpu401-uart
			rmmod snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd soundcore

			modprobe soundcore
			modprobe snd-via686
			modprobe snd-pcm-oss


When the sound is installed, the volume will be at zero, run
"/opt/kde/bin/kmix" and set according. Save the settings. It
must be run each time the machine is booted.


X-Window Configuration


I used the XF86Config file from when I had SuSE 8.1
linux loaded on the machine. This file DOES NOT have USB Mouse support. There
is a XF86Config that supports USB Mice.