Dell Inspiron 8100 - FreeBSD

Hardware info on main page.

This machine runs the i386 version of FreeBSD.

The primary ata drive (ad0) is sliced up as follows:

ad0s1 - 60 GB - FreeBSD (currently 8.1)
ad0s2 - 60 GB - FreeBSD (currently 7.2)

External usb drive (Samsung 80 GB), used for testing

da0s1 - xx GB - FreeBSD (currently 7.1)
da0s2 - xx GB - FreeBSD (currently 6.4)

Local links

Shuttle XH61V,

worklog

2015-11-02: firewall - ad0s1 - from /var/log/messages:

root@kg-omni1# grep smartd /var/log/messages
Nov  2 03:31:28 kg-omni1 smartd[1458]: Device: /dev/ad0, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Nov  2 04:01:28 kg-omni1 smartd[1458]: Device: /dev/ad0, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Nov  2 04:31:28 kg-omni1 smartd[1458]: Device: /dev/ad0, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Nov  2 05:01:29 kg-omni1 smartd[1458]: Device: /dev/ad0, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Nov  2 05:31:28 kg-omni1 smartd[1458]: Device: /dev/ad0, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Nov  2 06:01:28 kg-omni1 smartd[1458]: Device: /dev/ad0, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Nov  2 06:31:29 kg-omni1 smartd[1458]: Device: /dev/ad0, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Nov  2 07:01:29 kg-omni1 smartd[1458]: Device: /dev/ad0, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Nov  2 07:31:29 kg-omni1 smartd[1458]: Device: /dev/ad0, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Nov  2 08:01:27 kg-omni1 smartd[1458]: Device: /dev/ad0, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Nov  2 08:31:28 kg-omni1 smartd[1458]: Device: /dev/ad0, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Nov  2 09:01:28 kg-omni1 smartd[1458]: Device: /dev/ad0, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Nov  2 09:31:28 kg-omni1 smartd[1458]: Device: /dev/ad0, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Nov  2 10:01:29 kg-omni1 smartd[1458]: Device: /dev/ad0, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Nov  2 10:31:28 kg-omni1 smartd[1458]: Device: /dev/ad0, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Nov  2 11:01:29 kg-omni1 smartd[1458]: Device: /dev/ad0, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Nov  2 11:31:28 kg-omni1 smartd[1458]: Device: /dev/ad0, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Nov  2 12:01:28 kg-omni1 smartd[1458]: Device: /dev/ad0, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Nov  2 12:31:28 kg-omni1 smartd[1458]: Device: /dev/ad0, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Nov  2 13:01:29 kg-omni1 smartd[1458]: Device: /dev/ad0, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Nov  2 13:31:28 kg-omni1 smartd[1458]: Device: /dev/ad0, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Nov  2 14:01:29 kg-omni1 smartd[1458]: Device: /dev/ad0, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Nov  2 14:31:28 kg-omni1 smartd[1458]: Device: /dev/ad0, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Nov  2 15:01:28 kg-omni1 smartd[1458]: Device: /dev/ad0, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Nov  2 15:31:29 kg-omni1 smartd[1458]: Device: /dev/ad0, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Nov  2 16:01:29 kg-omni1 smartd[1458]: Device: /dev/ad0, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Nov  2 16:31:28 kg-omni1 smartd[1458]: Device: /dev/ad0, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Nov  2 17:01:28 kg-omni1 smartd[1458]: Device: /dev/ad0, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Nov  2 17:31:28 kg-omni1 smartd[1458]: Device: /dev/ad0, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Nov  2 18:01:28 kg-omni1 smartd[1458]: Device: /dev/ad0, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Nov  2 18:31:28 kg-omni1 smartd[1458]: Device: /dev/ad0, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Nov  2 19:01:28 kg-omni1 smartd[1458]: Device: /dev/ad0, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Nov  2 19:31:28 kg-omni1 smartd[1458]: Device: /dev/ad0, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Nov  2 20:01:28 kg-omni1 smartd[1458]: Device: /dev/ad0, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Nov  2 20:31:28 kg-omni1 smartd[1458]: Device: /dev/ad0, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Nov  2 21:01:29 kg-omni1 smartd[1458]: Device: /dev/ad0, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Nov  2 21:31:28 kg-omni1 smartd[1458]: Device: /dev/ad0, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors

smartctl health

root@kg-omni1# date;smartctl -H /dev/ad0Mon Nov  2 22:01:12 CET 2015
smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE i386] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

this indicates that I should speed up getting the new firewall online.

2015-07-03: firewall - ad0s1 - the firewall failed, possible due to user error. Relevant lines form /var/log/messages:

Jul  3 15:26:55 kg-omni1 acpi: suspend at 20150703 15:26:55
Jul  3 15:26:59 kg-omni1 kernel: rl0: promiscuous mode disabled
Jul  3 15:26:59 kg-omni1 dhcpd: receive_packet failed on rl0: Device not configured
Jul  3 15:27:00 kg-omni1 kernel: tdkphy1: detached
Jul  3 15:27:00 kg-omni1 kernel: miibus1: detached
Jul  3 15:27:00 kg-omni1 kernel: xl1: detached
Jul  3 15:27:00 kg-omni1 kernel: fwohci0: fwohci_pci_suspend

when I got home, I discovered that the firewall was down, and powered it on:

root@kg-omni1# uname -a;date;uptime
FreeBSD kg-omni1.kg4.no 8.1-STABLE FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE #1: Fri Feb 21 09:10:49 CET 2014
     root@kg-omni1.kg4.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
Fri Jul  3 23:11:41 CEST 2015
11:11PM  up 11 mins, 2 users, load averages: 0.10, 0.22, 0.16

that's it.

2015-01-17: firewall - ad0s1 - the firewall still runs FreeBSD 8.1-stable:

root@kg-omni1# uname -a
FreeBSD kg-omni1.kg4.no 8.1-STABLE FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE #1: Fri Feb 21 09:10:49 CET 2014     root@kg-omni1.kg4.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

the list of ports, for reference:

root@kg-omni1# pv (an alias for 'portversion -v')
autoconf-2.68               =  up-to-date with port
autoconf-wrapper-20071109   =  up-to-date with port
automake-1.11.1             =  up-to-date with port
automake-wrapper-20071109   =  up-to-date with port
bash-4.1.7_2                =  up-to-date with port
bison-2.4.3,1               =  up-to-date with port
boehm-gc-7.1                =  up-to-date with port
bsdstats-5.5_1              =  up-to-date with port
chkrootkit-0.49             =  up-to-date with port
cyrus-sasl-2.1.23           =  up-to-date with port
darkstat-3.0.713            =  up-to-date with port
db41-4.1.25_4               =  up-to-date with port
ddclient-3.8.0_1            =  up-to-date with port
gettext-0.18.1.1            =  up-to-date with port
gmake-3.81_4                =  up-to-date with port
help2man-1.38.2_1           =  up-to-date with port
isc-dhcp41-server-4.1.1.p1_3,1  =  up-to-date with port
libiconv-1.13.1_1           =  up-to-date with port
libtool-2.2.10              =  up-to-date with port
logcheck-1.3.13             =  up-to-date with port
lsof-4.84A,5                =  up-to-date with port
m4-1.4.15,1                 =  up-to-date with port
mime-construct-1.11         =  up-to-date with port
nginx-0.8.52                =  up-to-date with port
ossec-hids-local-2.4.1      =  up-to-date with port
p5-Digest-SHA1-2.13         =  up-to-date with port
p5-IO-Socket-SSL-1.33       =  up-to-date with port
p5-IPC-Signal-1.00          =  up-to-date with port
p5-Locale-gettext-1.05_3    =  up-to-date with port
p5-MIME-Base64-3.09         =  up-to-date with port
p5-MIME-Types-1.31          =  up-to-date with port
p5-Net-SSLeay-1.36          =  up-to-date with port
p5-Proc-WaitStat-1.00       =  up-to-date with port
pcre-8.10                   =  up-to-date with port
perl-5.10.1_2               =  up-to-date with port
portupgrade-2.4.6_4,2       =  up-to-date with port
postfix-2.7.1,1             =  up-to-date with port
procmail-3.22_6             =  up-to-date with port
rfc-3.2.3_1                 =  up-to-date with port
rkhunter-1.3.6              =  up-to-date with port
ruby-1.8.7.248_5,1          =  up-to-date with port
ruby18-bdb-0.6.5_1          =  up-to-date with port
smartmontools-5.39.1        =  up-to-date with port
unzip-6.0                   =  up-to-date with port
w3m-0.5.2_4                 =  up-to-date with port
wget-1.12_2                 =  up-to-date with port

quite a few. standard status "view":

root@kg-omni1# date;temp;swapinfo -h;echo " ";tvlm;echo " ";tvls;echo " ";df -h;echo " ";uptime;echo " ";ps ax | grep -v grep | grep ddc;ps ax | grep -v grep | grep smartd;ps ax | grep -v grep | grep natd;service nginx status;service natd status;service named status;service isc-dhcpd status;service ntpd status;service darkstat status
Sat Jan 17 15:24:43 CET 2015
hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature: 58.5C
Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity
/dev/ad0s1b       2097152     4.0K     2.0G     0%

Jan 17 10:43:16 kg-omni1 kernel: xl0: watchdog timeout
Jan 17 11:24:45 kg-omni1 kernel: xl0: transmission error: 90
Jan 17 11:24:51 kg-omni1 kernel: xl0: watchdog timeout
Jan 17 11:30:52 kg-omni1 kernel: xl0: transmission error: d0
Jan 17 11:30:59 kg-omni1 kernel: xl0: watchdog timeout
Jan 17 11:43:20 kg-omni1 kernel: xl0: transmission error: 90
Jan 17 11:43:27 kg-omni1 kernel: xl0: watchdog timeout
Jan 17 11:52:56 kg-omni1 kernel: ipfw: All logging counts reset.
Jan 17 15:14:44 kg-omni1 kernel: xl0: transmission error: 90
Jan 17 15:14:52 kg-omni1 kernel: xl0: watchdog timeout

Jan 17 15:24:19 kg-omni1 kernel: ipfw: 6300 Deny UDP 10.1.161.2:60781 8.8.8.8:53 in via rl0
Jan 17 15:24:20 kg-omni1 kernel: ipfw: 6300 Deny UDP 10.1.161.2:57792 8.8.8.8:53 in via rl0
Jan 17 15:24:22 kg-omni1 kernel: ipfw: 6300 Deny UDP 10.1.161.10:17784 255.255.255.255:17784 in via rl0
Jan 17 15:24:22 kg-omni1 kernel: ipfw: 6300 Deny UDP 10.1.161.10:32769 255.255.255.255:3483 in via rl0
Jan 17 15:24:23 kg-omni1 kernel: ipfw: 6000 Deny TCP 80.69.77.111:34531 84.215.180.206:9333 in via xl0
Jan 17 15:24:30 kg-omni1 last message repeated 3 times
Jan 17 15:24:35 kg-omni1 kernel: ipfw: 6300 Deny UDP 10.1.150.32:3483 255.255.255.255:3483 in via rl0
Jan 17 15:24:38 kg-omni1 kernel: ipfw: 6300 Deny UDP 10.1.150.23:5353 224.0.0.251:5353 in via rl0
Jan 17 15:24:38 kg-omni1 kernel: ipfw: 6300 Deny UDP 10.1.161.8:5353 224.0.0.251:5353 in via rl0
Jan 17 15:24:38 kg-omni1 kernel: ipfw: 6000 Deny TCP 80.69.77.111:34531 84.215.180.206:9333 in via xl0

Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a    989M    220M    691M    24%    /
devfs          1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev
/dev/ad0s1e    496M     90K    456M     0%    /tmp
/dev/ad0s1f     49G    2.7G     43G     6%    /usr
/dev/ad0s1d    1.4G    110M    1.2G     8%    /var
devfs          1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /var/named/dev

 3:24PM  up 186 days, 21:27, 2 users, load averages: 0.03, 0.13, 0.26

 1730  ??  Ss    49:16.22 ddclient - sleeping for 190 seconds (perl)
 1454  ??  I      0:15.57 /usr/local/sbin/smartd -p /var/run/smartd.pid -c /usr/local/etc/smartd.conf
  829  ??  Ss   9546:56.41 /sbin/natd -f /etc/natd.conf -dynamic -n xl0
nginx is running as pid 1722.
natd is running as pid 829.
named is running as pid 1319.
dhcpd is running as pid 1583.
ntpd is running as pid 1519.
darkstat is running as pid 1739.

also for reference.

2014-02-20: firewall - ad0s1 - following security advisory FreeBSD-SA-14:02.ntpd I patched ntpd and rebuilt world as described:

root@kg-omni1# ll /tmp/ntp*
-rw-r--r--  1 tingo  wheel  368 Feb 20 21:08 /tmp/ntpd.patch

root@kg-omni1# cd /usr/src
root@kg-omni1# patch  < /tmp/ntpd.patch
Hmm...  Looks like a unified diff to me...
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|Index: contrib/ntp/ntpd/ntp_config.c
|===================================================================
|--- contrib/ntp/ntpd/ntp_config.c    (revision 259828)
|+++ contrib/ntp/ntpd/ntp_config.c    (working copy)
--------------------------
Patching file contrib/ntp/ntpd/ntp_config.c using Plan A...
Hunk #1 succeeded at 597.
done

after rebuilding and installing world, I stopped and restarted ntpd.

2014-02-20: firewall - ad0s1 - trying to fix "slow internet access" I first restarted my modem - no help. Next I tried restarting natd - no help. A quick test: stop ntpd - internet is quick again - aha, that was the culprit. Must fix now. After restarting ntpd testing from a machine on the outside confirms that ntpd is vulnerable:

$ ntpdc -n -c monlist <outside IP addr>
<outside IP addr>: timed out with incomplete data
***Response from server was incomplete
don't be fooled by this answer.
tingo@ef5bf8ce-1177-44b5-b93e-df85450b25c8:~$ ntpq -c rv <outside IP addr>
associd=0 status=0664 leap_none, sync_ntp, 6 events, freq_mode,
version="ntpd 4.2.4p5-a (1)", processor="i386",
system="FreeBSD/8.1-STABLE", leap=00, stratum=2, precision=-19,
rootdelay=17.551, rootdispersion=123.010, peer=56600, refid=85.89.3.25,
reftime=d6b101f0.5e84f4e7  Thu, Feb 20 2014 23:36:32.369, poll=6,
clock=d6b10235.a5ccf7d1  Thu, Feb 20 2014 23:37:41.647, state=4,
offset=-101.500, frequency=37.530, jitter=35.161, noise=33.505,
stability=0.625, tai=0

Ouch! Time to fix. Now! Immediate action: editing /etc/ntp.conf, adding the lines:

restrict -4 default nomodify nopeer noquery notrap
restrict -6 default nomodify nopeer noquery notrap
restrict 127.0.0.1
restrict -6 ::1
restrict 127.127.1.0

to it and restarting ntpd. Hopefully that will help until I have patched and rebuilt ntpd. Looks better, ntpd is now at about 0.49% - 0.06% WCPU in top, as opposed to 10% before. Wow!

2013-01-02: firewall - ad0s1 - this morning my internet connection was slow as molasses, but dns worked as it should. I got a lot of timeouts from http (including ddclient). Nothing looked out of the ordinary (interface was up, speed and duplex ok, no swap used, and so on). Lacking any clues, I restarted natd (service natd restart). *Improvement was not immediate, but within about ten minutes everything was back to normal. Hard to tell if this was natd-related, or just a fluke.

2012-01-29: ad0s1 - after switching to a new ISP, the external network interface on the machine had to be reconfigured to use dhcp. From /etc/rc.conf:

ifconfig_xl0="DHCP"

Unfortunately, using dhcp has as side-effect that /etc/resolv.conf gets overwritten each time dhclient gets an address. Since I run a local nameserver (bind) on this machine, this side-effect is unwanted. Luckily, I found this post on the forums. So I created /etc/dhclient-enter-hooks and put this in it:

root@kg-omni1# more /etc/dhclient-enter-hooks
# avoid overwriting /etc/resolv.conf
add_new_resolv_conf() {
        # We don't want /etc/resolv.conf changed
        # So this is an empty function
        return 0
}

Seems to work.

2011-11-02: I switched to machine 2. slice 1 - dmesg output: normal.

2010-10-17: slice 1 - I upgraded to latest FreeBSD 8.1-stable. dmesg output: normal, verbose.

2010-10-16: slice 1 - I installed FreeBSD 8.1-release. dmesg output: normal, verbose.

wlans_ath0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"

are the wireless settings in /etc/rc.conf. In addition you need a /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf file.

2008-11-08: slice 1: ath_hal version 0.10.5.6 works nicely with FreeBSD 6.4-prerelease:

root@kg-i82# uname -a
FreeBSD kg-i82.kg4.no 6.4-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.4-PRERELEASE #1: Sat Nov  8 22:02:34 CET 2008     root@kg-i82.kg4.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/I81K  i386
root@kg-i82# dmesg | grep ath
ath_hal: 0.10.5.6 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, AR5416, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413, RF2133, RF2425, RF2417)
ath0: <Atheros 5416> mem 0xf4010000-0xf401ffff irq 10 at device 0.0 on cardbus1
ath0: Ethernet address: 00:13:f7:6f:2f:45
ath0: mac 13.10 phy 8.1 radio 13.0
ath0: link state changed to UP

2008-11-08: slice 2: I upgraded ath_hal to version 0.10.5.6 (found here) and the ath0 card still works. dmesg messages:

tingo@kg-i82$ dmesg | grep ath
ath_hal: 0.10.5.6 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, AR5416, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413, RF2133, RF2425, RF2417)
ath0: <Atheros 5416> mem 0xf4010000-0xf401ffff irq 10 at device 0.0 on cardbus1
ath0: [ITHREAD]
ath0: WARNING: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
ath0: Ethernet address: 00:13:f7:6f:2f:45
ath0: mac 13.10 phy 8.1 radio 13.0
tingo@kg-i82$ pciconf -lv | grep ath -A 4
ath0@pci0:5:0:0:        class=0x028000 card=0xee061113 chip=0x0023168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
    device     = 'AR5008 Wireless Network Adapter'
    class      = network

2008-11-08: slice 2: it seems that the SMC SMCWCB-N cardbus nic isn't supported in FreeBSD 7.1-prerelease. I updated ath_hal to version 0.9.30.13, rebuilt the kernel, and now the cad is detected as:

ath_hal: 0.9.30.13 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, AR5416, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413, RF2133)
ath0: <Atheros 5416> mem 0xf4010000-0xf401ffff irq 10 at device 0.0 on cardbus1
ath0: [ITHREAD]
ath0: WARNING: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
ath0: Ethernet address: 00:13:f7:6f:2f:45
ath0: mac 13.10 phy 8.1 radio 13.0
ath0: link state changed to UP
ath0: link state changed to DOWN
ath0: link state changed to UP

and it seems to be working well.

2008-10-30: slice 1 updated to FreeBSD 6.4-prerelease. dmesg output: normal, verbose.

2008-10-29: slice 2 updated to FreeBSD 7.1-prerelease. dmesg output: normal.

2008-10-10: I booted (with PLoP cd again) FreeBSD 7.1-prerelease from an usb hard drive. dmesg output: normal.

2008-10-10: With the help of PLoP boot manager on a CD, I booted FreeBSD 6.4-prerelease from an usb hard drive. dmesg output: normal. It seems lik PLoP only can boot when the usb hard drive is connected to the top usb port (on the back of the machine).

2008-09-21: I tested ufdformat on this machine, with FreeBSD 7.0-stable:

root@kg-i82# uname -a
FreeBSD kg-i82.kg4.no 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #3: Wed May 28 15:59:38 CEST 2008     root@kg-i82.kg4.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/I81K  i386
root@kg-i82# ./ufdformat da0
Geometry: 80 cyl 2 heads 18 secpercyl 512 bytespersec
current: 2880 blocks, 512 bytes-per-block formatted
0: 2880 blocks, 512 bytes-per-block
1: 1232 blocks, 1024 bytes-per-block
2: 2400 blocks, 512 bytes-per-block
Format 1440K floppy `da0'? (y/n): y
Processing VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV done.

ufdformat works as advertised on this machine.

2008-05-18: updated to latest FreeBSD 6.3-stable (slice 1). dmesg output.

2008-05-18: updated to latest FreeBSD 7.0-stable (slice 2): dmesg output.

2008-05-16: FreeBSD 7.0-stable: pciconf -lv output.

2008-03-17: I tried to boot from a dvd that I burned. It didn't work. The dvd booted fine in another machine, so there is something wrong here. A cd I burned with a partial copy of the dvd boots fine. Perhaps the Inspiron 8100 can't boot from dvds?

2008-03-02: upgraded to FreeBSD 7.0-stable. dmesg output and verbose dmesg output.

2008-03-01: installed FreeBSD 7.0-release from CD (disc1) on second slice (ad0s2). dmesg output. Realized that I had just 256 MB memory in the machine, and quickly put in another DIMM to get the memory up to 512 MB. Note: the second dimm is 512MB in size, but is recognized as 256 MB. dmesg output.

2008-02-17: upgraded to FreeBSD 6.3-stable. dmesg output.

2007-11-29: Trying to boot the machine with acpi disabled generates a "kernel trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode". It doesn't matter if i disable acpi with the boot menu or with unset acpi_load from the boot loader prompt.

2007-10-27: upgraded to FreeBSD 6.3-prerelease - dmesg.

2007-10-26: network boot is supported. Press F12 on boot, then select "Mini-PCI NIC" (or "Cardbus NIC") and then press enter. Can be configured with Ctrl+Alt+B. You can choose boot method from PXE, TCP/IP, NetWare, RPL. It supports PXE version 2.01.

2007-10-26: acpiconf -i 0 gives information about the (optional)battery in the left hand slot. Normally, there is a floppy drive in this slot.

2007-02-27: acpiconf -i 1 wll give you information about the standard (right hand side) battery. Whether an optional battery in the left hand side slot will be battery 2 or 0 (zero), I do not know.

2007-02-25: devinfo -v output, includes a Billionton LNA-100B PCCard NIC.

2007-02-18: FreeBSD 6.2-stable installed, dmesg.

2007-02-15: FreeBSD 6.2-release installed, dmesg.

The Dell Inspiron 8100 have two memory slots for SDRAM memory in an SO-DIMM package, but due to the specific chipset used, the machine can have a maximum of 512MB memory. The machine also have a 1600x1200 LCD, which is very nice. Boot keys: F2 will get you into BIOS setup, F12 will show you a boot menu. Boot from USB device is NOT supported. BIOS version: currently A15.