https://jeltsch.org/en/tags/fujitsu/Recent content in Fujitsu on Michael’s DomainHugoen-usCopyright © 2002 - 2026 Michael Jeltsch.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:18:18 +0300https://jeltsch.org/en/scansnap_ix100_support_for_linux/Fri, 23 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://jeltsch.org/en/scansnap_ix100_support_for_linux/<p>Under Ubuntu 16.04, the ScanSnap iX100 is not supported yet by the sane package. In order to get it working, you need to install the ppa from Rolf Bensch:<code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rolfbensch/sane-gitsudo updatesudo upgrade</code></p>https://jeltsch.org/en/fujitsu_siemens_amilo_d1840w_and_linux/Sat, 06 Mar 2004 00:00:00 +0000https://jeltsch.org/en/fujitsu_siemens_amilo_d1840w_and_linux/<p>My new notebook (or rather deskbook) is the Fujitsu Siemens Amilo D1840W. I installed it as dual-boot Windows XP/Suse Linux 9 with the following partitioning:<code>/dev/hda1 * 1 637 5116671 7 HPFS/NTFS, 4.9GB/dev/hda2 638 1274 5116702+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA), 4.9GB/dev/hda3 1275 1287 104422+ 83 Linux ext3 (/boot), 98.7MB/dev/hda4 1288 9728 67802332+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)/dev/hda5 1288 1416 1036161 82 Linux swap, 1GB/dev/hda6 1417 3244 14683378+ 83 Linux ReiserFS (/), 14GB/dev/hda7 3245 5072 14683378+ 83 Linux ReiserFS (/media/conf), 14GB/dev/hda8 5073 9728 37399288+ 83 Linux ReiserFS (/home), 35.7GB</code>First I booted up with the WindowsXP Professional installation CD and created the 4.9GB NTFS partition. After the XP installation I installed Suse 9. The Suse installer automatically offered me to mount the NTFS partition under /windows/C. It is probably read-only, but I created a 4.9GB FAT32 partition for moving files safely between Windows and Linux. The Linux install went smoothly. The only glitch was, that the installer choose a wrong kernel. Instead of the default kernel (2.4.21) it installed a SMP4G kernel (&ldquo;symmetric multiprocessor with max. 4 GB RAM&rdquo;). To display the current kernel version I checked with <code>uname -all</code> and realized that I have the wrong kernel. Apparently the installer get confused, because the Amilo D1840W has a HT processor (&ldquo;hyper threading&rdquo;) which can somehow emulate a multiprocesor machine. The HT feature can be switched off in the BIOS, but it is switched on by default. The SMP4G kernel works, apart from the network card. It is a sis900 (revision 91). At first I thought that it is the same error that affected Suse 8.1 ( <a href="http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2003/03/ubrueck_sis900.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2003/03/ubrueck_sis900.html&nbsp; <svg class="svg-inline--fa fas fa-up-right-from-square fa-2xs" fill="currentColor" aria-hidden="true" role="img" viewBox="0 0 512 512" overflow="visible"><use href="#fas-up-right-from-square"></use></svg></a> ). I checked the NIC details with<code>hwinfo --network_ctrl</code>but then I realized that it was due to the wrong kernel. After installing the correct kernel everything worked fine.</p>