Compaq Armada E500 - FreeBSD

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Work log

2008-10-09: upgraded to FreeBSD 7.1-prerelease on slice 1 on the usb hard drive. dmesg output.

2008-10-07: Upgraded to FreeBSD 6.4-prerelease on slice 2. dmesg output.

2008-10-07: I switched to slice 2 on the usb hard drive (I had to use 'fdisk -a -2', for some reason pressing F2 on the boot selector screen didn't work). Slice 2 contained FreeBSD 6.2-BETA1. dmesg output.

2008-10-06: with help from the PLoP Boot Manager (on a CD), I booted FreeBSD 7.0-stable from a usb hard drive. dmesg output: normal, verbose. Sound is supported via the snd_maestro kernel module. The laptop has an intpm power management controller. 'pciconf -lv' output. dmidecode - output. kenv output for smbios:

root@testhost-1# kenv | grep smb
smbios.bios.reldate="03/15/2002"
smbios.bios.vendor="Compaq"
smbios.bios.version="1.35"
smbios.chassis.maker="Compaq"
smbios.chassis.serial="7J06DN98704C    "
smbios.chassis.tag="                "
smbios.planar.maker="Compaq"
smbios.planar.product="05BC"
smbios.socket.enabled="1"
smbios.socket.populated="1"
smbios.system.maker="Compaq"
smbios.system.product="Armada    E500                             "
smbios.system.serial="7J06DN98704C    "
smbios.system.uuid="33605fa1-dc05-b611-9eb3-b6f4181db8fa"

2008-10-05: I booted FreeBSD 7.0-release from cdrom on the machine. dmesg output: normal. 'pciconf -lv' output.