Fujitsu Lifebook® S6210 Intel® Pentium® M 1.6gHz 1M Cache CentrinoTM Mobile Technology 512MB RAM (2 x 256 DDR 333, 200 pin SDRAM) 13.3" Crystal View XGA LCD Intel i82852/855GME Video chipset Intel i82810DB SigmaTel AC'97 6 channel Sound Fujitsu MHT2040AT 40GB disk Toshiba SD-2512 24X DVD/CDRW ACPI ac battery button fan processor thermal ACPI hotplug capability ALPS touchpad 3 USB 2.0 ports Intel 82801DB EHCI Broadcom 4400 10/100 Ethernet (RJ45) Intel Pro Wireless 2200bg 801.11b, 802.11g 56k V.90 modem IEEE 1394 Firewire S-Video out Memory Stick / SD Flash card slot Cardbus (yenta) slot

What works and what doesn't

• XFree86 using the i810 video driver just works.  External video out through the rear VGA d-sub connector kinda works.  There is a Fn key combo with F10 that toggles (exclusively) between LCD and external video, but it shifts the image down, replaces the top 1/4" with noise, and eliminates the mouse pointer.   There is a Debian package: i810switch, that allows use of both LCD and external video at the same time, but the crt image is noisy there also.  It is probably a problem with my XF86Config-4 file.  i810switch doesn't help with S-Video.
• Sound using the i810 ALSA driver works.  You need to install the alsa-utils package, to restore the volume settings at boot time.
• Touchpad works using the psaux driver, but the scroll button doesn't.  There is a Debian package called tpconfig that supposedly works with ALPS touchpads, but it seems to think there is no ALPS device available.
• Broadcom bcm4400 (wired) ethernet is not built in to the kernel until 2.6.6., so you probably have to build a kernel (see below).  Once the drivers are installed, it seems to work fine.
• Intel Pro Wireless 2200bg has an ongoing SourceForge (release 0.12 as of this writing) project, I am currently using this driver and it is working quite well.
  
• Cardbus slot works with the yenta driver in the kernel.  I was previously using a D-link DWL-650+ wireless ethernet to substitute for the 2200bg before the native driver was available.
  
• SD card slot doesn't work.  Tried unsuccessfully to treat it as USB mass storage.
• Firewire is detected by the kernel, but I haven't tried it.
  
• Modem - haven't tried.

Linux installation

1. Boot from the Knoppix version 3.4 (or better) CD only distribution.  The default kernel (2.4.26) does not support the Broadcom ethernet.  Respond to the boot prompt with linux26.
   
2. Use ntfsresize and fdisk to shrink the factory installed Windows XP Home partition to end up as follows...
   

   partition	type		boot	start cylinder	end cylinder	gigabytes
   1	NTFS	7	y	1	853	6
   2	Extended	f		4604	4864	2
   3	Linux	83	y	854	4339	28
   4	Linux swap	82		4340	4603	2
   5	FAT32	b		4604	4864	2

   Knoppix at the time did not install to the hard drive, but does now.
   
3. Download iso image of Debian Sarge (testing) CD #1.  I chose the site because the files were recent.
   
4. Use the included Sonic RecordNow software on XP to burn the iso image to a CD.
5. Boot this CD and install to the point that either the next CD or a network is required.  Now you have to make a decision:  connect to the Internet, or burn lots more CDs.  I chose the former.  Source to the Broadcom driver is here, but you can't compile it on what you have so far.  I chose to build a 2.6.6 kernel, which includes the (experimental) Broadcom driver, on another box.
1. On another Linux box...
   
2. apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.6
3. apt-get install kernel-package if not already installed
   
4. cd /usr/src
5. bzcat kernel-source-2.6.6*bz2 | tar xf -
6. cd kernel-source-2.6.6
   
7. make menuconfig -- or use my .config file. 
   
8. make-kpkg --revision=custom.2.6.6.1 kernel_image modules_image
9. Back to Windows XP...
10. If your server is also a samba server, you can use the Windoze gooey to copy the kernel image to the NTFS partition.  Otherwise,forsake the gui, find a cmd prompt, then...
           pscp me@server:/usr/src/kernel-image-2.6.6*.deb
    ... you may need to download pscp from the putty download page or find some other method to transfer the kernel package.
    
11. reboot to partial Debian install (just answer questions until you see a cancel button to get to a shell prompt)
12. cd /root
    
13. mount -t ntfs -o ro /dev/hda1 /xp
14. cp /xp/*ings/owner/*nts/download/kernel-image-2.6.6*.deb /root
    *ings = Documents and Settings
    *nts = My Documents
    In case you didn't notice, I copied the pkg to download of My Documents and I'm annoyed by spaces in filenames!
    
15. dpkg --install kernel-image-2.6.6*.deb
16. reboot
6. Now you can continue with the rest of the installation.

• now using kernel 2.6.12 with this config file.
  

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