Fred's Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3

http://www.crowsons.com/puters -> s3.php

Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3 - I bought this netbook second hand.

Fred's Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3
Fred's Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3
Name S3 x41
OS's [OpenBSD]
[Debian]
[FreeBSD]*
*currently running FreeBSD
Model 0647
CPU 1.66 Ghz Intel Atom N450
RAM 2 Gb
Hard Disk 160 Gb
dmesg dmesg
Notes To enter BIOS hold down Fn2 during boot. Fn12 for the boot menu. The athn0 failed to work initially but in OpenBSD 5.5 the driver now works: 

s3:fred ~> ifconfig athn0
athn0: flags=8843 mtu 1500
        lladdr 90:4c:e5:c8:29:20
        priority: 4
        groups: wlan
        media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (DS5 mode 11g)
        status: active
        ieee80211: nwid wifinet chan 11 bssid dc:9f:db:04:bb:24 48dB wpakey  wpaprotos wpa1,wpa2 wpaakms psk wpaciphers tkip,ccmp wpagroupcipher tkip
        inet6 fe80::924c:e5ff:fec8:2920%athn0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
        inet 10.0.5.118 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.5.255

Problems / Quirks

S3 stopped powering on - until I remembered that if I powered it on with the battery removed it would work and it did...

Resetting the BIOS this was done by unplugging the CMOS battery from the motherboard - will take some picture next time ;~)

The device does have an additional wireless card inside, and GSM sim card slot but they are disable by the BIOS - I haven't found a BIOS that I can flash to see if I can get these devices working...

The sim card will work if a GSM card is fitted - waiting for one to try this out.

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