OpenBSD on Dell Latitude CPI A300ST

A black Dell Latitude laptop, open, its screen showing a red “300MHz Notebook PCs” promo graphic

I found my hands on this laptop through a friend. It came preinstalled with Win98 which I quickly cleaned off. Installation was a breeze over the network with a Dlink DFE-650 10/100 PCCARD. I have been known to carry this thing with me to remote sites to go console with cisco routers. I also write code on the road. The X11 runs nice at 800 x 600 24bpp. Apm works really nice. Next thing to get working is the sound...

below is the dmesg:

bootargv: diskinfo 0xe03cb00c cksumlen 1 memmap 0xe03cb088 apminfo 0xe03cb148
OpenBSD 2.6-current (BREAKDANCE) #0: Mon Nov 29 04:03:25 EST 1999
    root@breakdance:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/BREAKDANCE
cpu0: Intel Pentium II (Celeron) ("GenuineIntel" 686-class, 256KB L2 cache) 298 MHz
cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SYS,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,SER,MMX,FXSR
BIOS mem  = 654336 conventional, 65994752 extended
real mem  = 66650112
avail mem = 59510784
using 839 buffers containing 3436544 bytes of memory
mainbus0 (root)
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(00) BIOS, date 01/27/99
apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.1
apm0: battery life expectancy 94%
apm0: AC off, battery charge high, estimated 4:04 minutes
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios)
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82443BX PCI-AGP (PAC)" rev 0x03
ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Intel 82443BX AGP (PAC)" rev 0x03
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
"Neomagic Magicgraph NM2200" rev 0x20 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 not configured
"Neomagic MagicMedia 256AV" rev 0x20 at pci1 dev 0 function 1 not configured
"Texas Instruments PCI1225 PCI-CardBus" rev 0x01 at pci0 dev 3 function 0 not configured
"Texas Instruments PCI1225 PCI-CardBus" rev 0x01 at pci0 dev 3 function 1 not configured
pcib0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 "Intel 82371AB PIIX4 ISA" rev 0x02
pciide0 at pci0 dev 7 function 1 "Intel 82371AB IDE (PIIX4)" rev 0x01: DMA, channel 0 wired to compatibility, cha
nnel 1 wired to compatibility
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: 
wd0: can use 32-bit, PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 2
wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 4126MB, 8944 cyl, 15 head, 63 sec, 8452080 sectors
pciide0: channel 0 interrupting at irq 14
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 (using DMA data transfers)
pciide0: channel 1 ignored (disabled)
uhci0 at pci0 dev 7 function 2 "Intel 82371AB USB (PIIX4)" rev 0x01: irq 11 version 1.0
usb0 at uhci0
uhub0 at usb0
uhub0:  UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
"Intel 82371AB Power Management (PIIX4)" rev 0x02 at pci0 dev 7 function 3 not configured
isa0 at pcib0
isadma0 at isa0
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
sysbeep0 at pcppi0
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16
pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
vt0 at isa0 port 0x60/16 irq 1: generic VGA, 80 col, color, 8 scr, mf2-kbd
pms0 at vt0 irq 12
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
pcic0 at isa0 port 0x3e0/2 iomem 0xd0000/16384
pcic0 controller 0:  has sockets A and B
pcmcia0 at pcic0 controller 0 socket 0
ne0 at pcmcia0 function 0 "D-Link, DFE-650, Fast Ethernet" port 0x340/16 irq 3
ne0: address 00:80:c8:c9:27:33
pcmcia1 at pcic0 controller 0 socket 1
pcic0: irq 9
biomask 4840 netmask 4848 ttymask 5aca
pctr: 686-class user-level performance counters enabled
mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support
dkcsum: wd0 matched BIOS disk 80
root on wd0a
rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302

your laptop may run netscape, but mine runs apache!

truman

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