Hi.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Kevin > Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 9:59 PM > To: OpenBSD Misc > Subject: OpenBSD on Dell Dimension 2400 or 3000? > > A friend needs to order a basic computer with a good warranty, > to run as a very basic OpenBSD 3.7 firewall for a cablemodem. > I'd put one together from parts, but I don't relish doing "won't > boot" > hardware support from 1600 miles away. > > Looking at the Dell Dimension line (probably the 2400 or 3000) > one concern is that I don't see *any* reports, success or failure, > running OpenBSD on this particular product? > > One reason to choose the Dell (with a CPU that is way overkill) is > that the box may be eventually repurposed as an XP desktop... > > > Alternately, any other suggestions for a US mail order PC > vendor with fair prices, quick turnaround, a hardware warranty > and a pre-built small tower which will reliably run OpenBSD? > > This is just going to get shoved under a desk, so rackmount > is not a consideration, and it doesn't need to be perfectly quiet. > Here is a dmesg from an Dimension 3000. Snapshot was from today taken off of rt.fm. OpenBSD 3.8-beta (GENERIC) #95: Tue Aug 16 18:44:40 MDT 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 2.80 GHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36, CF LUSH,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,PNI,MWAIT,CNXT-ID real mem = 534818816 (522284K) avail mem = 481087488 (469812K) using 4278 buffers containing 26845184 bytes (26216K) of memory mainbus0 (root) bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(00) BIOS, date 11/08/04, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xffe90 apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2 apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown apm0: flags 30102 dobusy 0 doidle 1 pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0x10000 pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xfeae0/160 (8 entries) pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:31:0 ("Intel 82801EB/ER LPC" rev 0x00) pcibios0: PCI bus #1 is the last bus bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0xa800 0xca800/0x1800! cpu0 at mainbus0 pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82865G/PE/P CPU-I/0-1" rev 0x02 vga1 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "Intel 82865G Video" rev 0x02: aperture at 0xe8000 000, size 0x8000000 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) uhci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 0 "Intel 82801EB/ER USB" rev 0x02: irq 11 usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0 at usb0 uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci1 at pci0 dev 29 function 1 "Intel 82801EB/ER USB" rev 0x02: irq 10 usb1 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1 uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci2 at pci0 dev 29 function 3 "Intel 82801EB/ER USB" rev 0x02: irq 11 usb2 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0 uhub2 at usb2 uhub2: Intel UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered ehci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 7 "Intel 82801EB/ER USB" rev 0x02: irq 9 usb3 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub3 at usb3 uhub3: Intel EHCI root hub, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub3: 8 ports with 8 removable, self powered ppb0 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 "Intel 82801BA AGP" rev 0xc2 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 fxp0 at pci1 dev 8 function 0 "Intel PRO/100 VE" rev 0x02: irq 10, address 00:13 :20:53:4e:bd inphy0 at fxp0 phy 1: i82562ET 10/100 PHY, rev. 0 ichpcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 "Intel 82801EB/ER LPC" rev 0x02 pciide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 1 "Intel 82801EB/ER IDE" rev 0x02: DMA, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <ST340014A> wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 38146MB, 78125000 sectors wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0 scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <HL-DT-ST, CD-ROM GCR-8485B, 1.05> SCSI0 5/cdrom r emovable cd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 "Intel 82801EB/ER SMBus" rev 0x02 at pci0 dev 31 function 3 not configured auich0 at pci0 dev 31 function 5 "Intel 82801EB/ER AC97" rev 0x02: irq 3, ICH5 A C97 ac97: codec id 0x41445370 (Analog Devices AD1980) ac97: codec features headphone, 20 bit DAC, No 3D Stereo audio0 at auich0 isa0 at ichpcib0 isadma0 at isa0 pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pmsi0 at pckbc0 (aux slot) pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot wsmouse0 at pmsi0 mux 0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker> spkr0 at pcppi0 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 biomask ef65 netmask ef65 ttymask ffe7 pctr: user-level cycle counter enabled dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80 root on wd0a rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302 xdm fired up right out of the box. Re, -mb
