[ubuntu-za] Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Laptop

[Wesley Werner]

Mohamed,

Try if this fixes your usb problem:

https://community.linuxmint.com/hardware/view/12249



On 4 Aug 2017 21:16, "Deon Pretorius" <deon1964 at googlemail.com> wrote:

> I used to work for Siemens and their hardware was not really standard.
> Originally designed for P/CPM or DR DOS.
>
> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
> *From: *Charl Le Roux
> *Sent: *Friday 4 August 2017 16:02
> *To: *Ubuntu South African Local Community
> *Reply To: *Ubuntu South African Local Community
> *Subject: *Re: [ubuntu-za] Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Laptop
>
> Hi Mohamed,
> - BIOS chips are not generally replaceable.  They come with the
> motherboard. Better to buy a new laptop.
> - I see that laptop has a maximum RAM of 1Gb.  So I would suggest that you
> upgrade the ram to 1Gb and install a lightweight version of Ubuntu like
> https://xubuntu.org/
>
> I hope that works for you.
>
> Regards
>
> On 4 August 2017 at 15:32, Mohamed Kikia <mohamed.kikia at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have a Fujitso Siemens Amilo L7310GW laptop which is a few years old.
>> Apparently these laptops wont run anything but Windoze XP. I tried Linux
>> (Ubuntu and a few other distros) on this laptop. They wouldn't run
>> properly. USB ports not recognized etc.  I have read somewhere that its
>> part of the bios that only allows windows XP to run. Does anyone know where
>> I can buy an updated bios chip to replace the existing one? I can manage
>> the change quite easily if I can get another bios chip. The laptop is
>> perfect in all other respects. I can't understand why the manufacturers
>> would something as stupid as this!
>>
>> regards
>>
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