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1.90 deraadt 17: <h2><font color=#e00000>Hardware wanted</font><hr></h2>
1.1 deraadt 18:
1.90 deraadt 19: <h3><font color=#e00000>Why do we want your old hardware?</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 20: <p>
21: The following list outlines hardware that the OpenBSD project could use.
22: Some of this is being requested so that developers can improve or add driver
23: support for devices which are rare; other requests are for hardware that
24: will improve our development environment. In either case, we think we are
1.78 deraadt 25: being reasonable at asking for these devices.<p>
1.1 deraadt 26:
1.78 deraadt 27: If you do not own these devices, but want to help us, we recommend you
1.96 aaron 28: search on <a href=http://www.ebay.com>eBay</a> for the devices. If
1.78 deraadt 29: you do the bidding and then get the device shipped to us, it really
30: helps us. It's much better if our developers do not need to spend the
31: time going through the bidding process, since any time saved can be
1.118 deraadt 32: spent on improving OpenBSD instead.<p>
1.109 niklas 33:
1.110 aaron 34: As a reasonably large quantity of OpenBSD developers and users are in northern
1.109 niklas 35: Europe we have setup a specific want list for that area. If you are in that
1.110 aaron 36: region, go <a href=#n-eur>here</a> first to check what developers close
1.109 niklas 37: to you are in need of or want to work on support for.
1.22 deraadt 38:
1.90 deraadt 39: <h3><font color=#e00000>Additional Notes</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 40: <p>
1.90 deraadt 41: Notes:
42: <dl>
43: <li>In each case, please contact
1.1 deraadt 44: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>
1.2 mickey 45: before simply shipping hardware around. (So that we can decide where
1.90 deraadt 46: the hardware needs to be shipped to).<p>
47: <li>As an extra incentive, Theo is willing to trade quantities of stickers
48: for some of these things.<p>
49: <li>When shipping over International borders, never use UPS regular service,
50: because they charge incredible fees for brokerage.<p>
51: </dl>
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1.90 deraadt 53: <hr>
1.22 deraadt 54:
1.90 deraadt 55: <h3><font color=#e00000>The want list</font></h3>
56: <dl>
57: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Alpha hardware</font></h4>
1.51 deraadt 58: <ul>
1.111 deraadt 59: <li>Some alpha hardware in North America.
1.51 deraadt 60: <li>We are especially looking for alphas better than the
61: Multia and axppci33 models.
62: </ul>
63: <p>
1.90 deraadt 64: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>i386 gear</font></h4>
1.89 deraadt 65: <ul>
1.93 brad 66: <li>Some sort of x86 In-Circuit-Emulator, for debugging really hard bugs.
1.90 deraadt 67: <li>BT445S VL SCSI card.
1.115 mickey 68: <li>Aironet 4500/4800 in PCMCIA, ISA, and PCI form factors.
1.134 deraadt 69: <li>Cabletron Roamabout PCMCIA wireless card
70: <li>3COM Airconnect PCMCIA wireless card
1.170 millert 71: <li>Intel WPC2011NA PCMCIA wireless card and WPCR2011WW PCI adaptor
1.96 aaron 72: <li>Intel i82586/i82596-based Ethernet cards
73: (i.e., BusLogic Bt763E EISA, Intel Flash32 EISA,
1.90 deraadt 74: Cogent eMaster EM935/EM932 EISA,
1.108 rohee 75: AT&T StarLAN 10, AT&T EN100)
1.89 deraadt 76: </ul>
77: <p>
1.90 deraadt 78: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Sparc gear</font></h4>
1.40 deraadt 79: <ul>
1.111 deraadt 80: <li>SS20.
1.96 aaron 81: <li>Some SBUS ultrasparc machines.
82: <li>Some PCI ultrasparc machines.
83: <li>SBUS fas fast-wide SCSI card (hme or non-hme card).
1.40 deraadt 84: <li>SBUS pcmcia adapters (using STP4020 or similar chipset).
1.76 deraadt 85: <li>SBUS "xbox" sbus expander.
1.107 deraadt 86: <li>MBus SM71, SM81, or SM81-2 cpu modules.
1.111 deraadt 87: <li>More very fast hypersparc modules.
1.74 deraadt 88: <li>Tadpole S3GX.
1.156 miod 89: <li>SS20 memory.
1.40 deraadt 90: </ul>
91: <p>
1.90 deraadt 92: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>PCI gear</font></h4>
1.40 deraadt 93: <ul>
1.150 deraadt 94: <li>More Gigabit Ethernet PCI cards.
1.168 nate 95: <li> <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=nge&sektion=4">nge</a> based gigabit ethernet adapters:
96: <ul>
97: <li>SMC EZ Card 1000 (SMC9462TX)
98: <li>Asante FriendlyNet GigaNIX 1000TA and 1000TPC
99: <li>Addrton AEG320T
100: </ul>
1.172 nate 101: <li>Level1 LXT1001 based Gigabit ethernet
102: <ul>
103: <li>D-Link DGE-500SX
1.173 ! nate 104: <li>SMC 9462SX
! 105: <li>SMC 9462TX
1.172 nate 106: </ul>
1.106 smurph 107: <li>Adaptec 786x-based PCI SCSI boards
1.45 niklas 108: <li>Any supported PCI SCSI board with (at least) one narrow bus
109: for RAIDframe testing.
1.96 aaron 110: <li>S3 SonicVibes PCI audio card
111: <li>Initio PCI SCSI cards
1.40 deraadt 112: </ul>
113: <p>
1.113 aaron 114: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>USB gear</font></h4>
115: <ul>
1.119 aaron 116: <li>Any USB devices will help immensely
117: <li>USB Ethernet interfaces
118: <li>USB Zip Drives, USB Floppy Drives, USB CDRW
119: <li>USB Printers
120: <li>USB Modems
1.153 nate 121: <li>USB Keyboards
122: <li>USB Mice
1.119 aaron 123: <li>Diamond Rio MP3 Player
124: <li>Handspring Visor
125: <li>Any other miscellaneous devices with USB connectors
1.113 aaron 126: </ul>
127: <p>
1.138 aaron 128: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>PC Card (PCMCIA)</font></h4>
1.119 aaron 129: <ul>
130: <li>Any CardBus cards, especially Ethernet and SCSI.
131: <li>A number of ISA->PCMCIA and PCI->CardBus bridge cards.
1.137 fgsch 132: <li>Xircom RealPort 10/100 Ethernet + 56K modem + GSM.
133: <li>A couple Intel EtherExpress 10/100.
1.119 aaron 134: <li>ATA PCMCIA cards.
1.166 fgsch 135: <li>Any Asix AX88190 based NE2000 card.
1.138 aaron 136: <li>ATA Flash cards.
1.143 aaron 137: <li>Any CompactFlash+ Ethernet adapters.
1.138 aaron 138: <li>IBM Microdrives.
1.119 aaron 139: </ul>
140: <p>
141: <a href="http://www.synchrotech.com/products/card-rw_08.html">
142: PCI->PCMCIA adapters</a>
143: <p>
1.90 deraadt 144: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Infrastructure requirements</font></h4>
1.40 deraadt 145: <ul>
1.168 nate 146: <li>A gigabit switch
1.75 deraadt 147: <li>Really fast PC motherboard+cpu combinations. To increase our
148: development efforts on a continual basis, two of our x86 machines
149: need to be upgraded about every 4-5 months.
1.96 aaron 150: <li>A small FDDI concentrator.
151: <li>A fairly large UPS (Calgary).
1.105 deraadt 152: <li>A Hardware RAID solution.
153: <li>DLT backup changer.
1.111 deraadt 154: <li>2 or 3 brand new U2W or LVD 9GB or larger disk drives.
1.40 deraadt 155: </ul>
1.3 deraadt 156: <p>
1.123 deraadt 157: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Amiga gear (contact espie@openbsd.org [France])</font></h4>
1.90 deraadt 158: <ul>
1.96 aaron 159: <li>Amiga 68060 card, fit for an A2000 or A3000, preferably with fast SCSI
1.15 deraadt 160: and slots for cheap memory.
1.90 deraadt 161: </ul>
1.5 espie 162: <p>
1.123 deraadt 163: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>HPPA gear (contact mickey@openbsd.org [USA])</font></h4>
164:
1.40 deraadt 165: <ul>
1.146 mickey 166: <li>HP 9000 C180 or a similar PCI-equipped machine w/ a PA-8000 cpu class
1.52 mickey 167: <li>HP 9000 J2x0 w/ two cpus (J210 is HP A4081A, CPU is HP A4278A)
168: <li>HP 9000/712 multiprotocol interface card (HP A4015A)
169: <li>HP 9000/712 2nd graphics w/ 2nd LAN card (HP A4212A)
170: <li>HP 9000/712 IEEE488 card (TAMS 50488,
171: see <a href="http://www.tamsinc.com/hp-ib712.htm">TAMS</a>)
1.40 deraadt 172: </ul>
173: <p>
1.123 deraadt 174: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Motorola mvme68k/mvme88k gear (contact smurph@openbsd.org [USA])</font></h4>
1.50 smurph 175: <ul>
1.72 smurph 176: <li>MVME327 SCSI VME Board plus documentation.
1.151 smurph 177: <li>MVME374 Ethernet documentation.
1.91 smurph 178: <li>Any type of VME 6U chassis.
1.72 smurph 179: <li>1 to 4 gig Non-Wide SCSI drives. (These would help enormously)
1.163 miod 180: <li>miod@ would like to test his code on any mvme1x7 card with >= 16MB memory and a working scsi controller, mvme167 or mvme177 preferred.
1.50 smurph 181: </ul>
182: <p>
1.144 drahn 183: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>PowerPC hardware (contact drahn@openbsd.org [USA])</font></h4>
1.97 rahnds 184: <ul>
185: <li>Apple G4 Server configuration machine.
186: <li>PowerBook G3 system.
187: <li>iBook system.
188: <li>iMac DV system.
189: <li>Programmer Reference Guides on any recent Apple hardware.
1.106 smurph 190: <li>Any 603, 604, or 750 based Motorola MVME PowerPC based Single
191: board computers.
1.151 smurph 192: <li>Any 603, 604, or 750 based IBM RS6000 machine.
1.97 rahnds 193: </ul>
194: <p>
1.123 deraadt 195: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Sun3 gear (contact miod@openbsd.org [France])</font></h4>
1.122 miod 196: <ul>
1.156 miod 197: <li>sun 3/60 motherboards (preferred with PROM version 3.*)
198: <li>sun 3/110 motherboard (501-1134)
1.122 miod 199: <li>VME ethernet cards.
200: <li>Carerra (3/1x0) 2 or 4mb memory boards.
1.147 miod 201: <li>Xylogics 750 VME controller.
1.122 miod 202: </ul>
203: <p>
1.149 hugh 204: <a name="vax"></a>
1.135 hugh 205: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>VAX gear (contact hugh@openbsd.org [Canada])</font></h4>
206: <ul>
1.149 hugh 207: <li>Any fast (12+ VUPS) 3100 or 4000 series vaxstation or microvax.
208: <li>BJC would love to hack on the 4000/70X, have one to spare?
1.135 hugh 209: <li>DELQA and DESQA ethernet controllers.
210: <li>Later (1980's) hardware documentation.
1.149 hugh 211: <li>SCSI2 drives, MMJ cables, connectors, etc. Small stuff is needed!
212: <li>DSSI drives and external DSSI terminator.
1.135 hugh 213: </ul>
214: <p>
1.90 deraadt 215: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>ISAPNP cards</font></h4>
216: We want as many as possible, so that our ISAPNP support can become
217: very rock-solid. All sorts wanted, including:<p>
1.40 deraadt 218: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 219: <li>ISAPNP cards that have IDE connectors.
1.40 deraadt 220: <li>WSS audio card.
1.96 aaron 221: <li>CSxxx audio card, that definitely has MIDI support.
1.40 deraadt 222: </ul>
223: <p>
1.90 deraadt 224: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Miscellaneous</font></h4>
1.46 jason 225: <ul>
1.106 smurph 226: <li>Any Ultra, Ultra/Wide, LVD SE SCSI drives. We need these to further
227: SCSI driver development. Please, please, please!
228: <li>Any Ultra, Ultra/Wide, LVD SE SCSI cables. Internal and External.
1.162 pvalchev 229: Also needed for new SCSI driver development.
1.46 jason 230: <li>External MII (PHY) interface (HPDB40 connector)
1.70 deraadt 231: <li>A MIDI playback device, so that the MIDI support can be kept solid.
1.73 deraadt 232: <li>Any spare IDE/ATAPI devices people might have. It's a mess,
233: and high quality software requires that we have PLENTY of test
234: devices in use!
1.46 jason 235: </ul>
1.47 jason 236: <p>
1.90 deraadt 237: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Documentation</font></h4>
238: <ul>
1.150 deraadt 239: <li>POSIX.1 specifications document (purchased from IETF).
1.158 jufi 240: <li>Any other major relevant Unix standards document (i.e. XPG, Unix99, etc)
1.90 deraadt 241: </ul>
242: </dl>
1.1 deraadt 243:
1.109 niklas 244: <a name=n-eur></a>
1.123 deraadt 245: <h3><font color=#e00000>Want list for Northern Europe (contact niklas@openbsd.org [Sweden])</font></h3>
1.109 niklas 246: <dl>
247: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>SMP hardware</font></h4>
248: <ul>
249: <li>SMP-capable i386 motherboards with or without CPUs.
250: <li>Intel CPUs in matching pair or more.
251: <li>SMP-capable alpha computers.
252: </ul>
253: <p>
254: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Storage</font></h4>
255: <ul>
1.116 niklas 256: <li>Large (8-18 GB) laptop IDE disks.
1.121 smurph 257: <li>Wide, Ultra-wide and Ultra2, & Ultra160 LVD SCSI disks.
1.109 niklas 258: <li>Reasonably large tape device (>10GB uncompressed),
1.158 jufi 259: preferably with a changer. SCSI preferred, ATAPI may do.
1.109 niklas 260: <li>Unsupported hardware RAID cards.
1.117 espie 261: <li>Any kind of RAM, SIMMs & DIMMs are always useful.
1.109 niklas 262: </ul>
263: <p>
264: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>PCMCIA & Cardbus</font></h4>
265: <ul>
1.117 espie 266: <li>ISA-PCMCIA & PCI-Cardbus bridge cards</li>
1.109 niklas 267: </ul>
1.138 aaron 268: <p>
1.116 niklas 269: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Gigabit</font></h4>
270: <ul>
271: <li>Other than Alteon Tigon based NIC(s)</li>
272: <li>Other than Netgear gigabit switch</li>
273: </ul>
1.109 niklas 274: <p>
1.167 niklas 275: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Miscellaneous</font></h4>
276: <ul>
277: <li>A 19" rack in the vicinity of Gothenburg.
278: </ul>
279: <p>
1.109 niklas 280: </dl>
281:
1.160 fgsch 282: <a name=n-sa></a>
1.159 fgsch 283: <h3><font color=#e00000>Want list for South America (contact fgsch@openbsd.org [Argentina])</font></h3>
284: <dl>
285: <p>
286: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Sparc gear</font></h4>
287: <ul>
288: <li>Sun type5 keyboard.</li>
289: <li>A Sparc20 CD-rom.</li>
290: <li>MBus SM71, SM81, or SM81-2 cpu modules.</li>
291: <li>SS20 memory and VSIMMs.</li>
292: <li>Floppy drive.</li>
293: <li>Any supported Sparc hardware.</li>
294: </ul>
295: <p>
1.160 fgsch 296: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>PCMCIA</font></h4>
297: <ul>
298: <li>PCI-PCMCIA & PCI-Cardbus bridge cards.</li>
299: <li>Any xe(4) 10/100 card.</li>
300: </ul>
301: <p>
302: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Token Ring</font></h4>
1.159 fgsch 303: <ul>
1.160 fgsch 304: <li>A MAU.</li>
305: <li>Any token ring cards.</li>
1.159 fgsch 306: </ul>
307: <p>
1.160 fgsch 308: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Infrastructure</font></h4>
1.159 fgsch 309: <ul>
1.160 fgsch 310: <li>A 10/100 hub.</li>
311: <li>Any x86 mobo with cpu.</li>
1.159 fgsch 312: </ul>
313: <p>
314: </dl>
315:
1.1 deraadt 316: <hr>
1.90 deraadt 317:
318: <h3><font color=#e00000>Previously Donated</font></h3>
1.34 deraadt 319: Since this web page was created in Oct, 1998, people have donated the
320: following items which we requested here. Those people are listed in
321: the ranks of our <a href=donations.html>donations page</a>. Thanks!
1.33 deraadt 322: <p>
323: <ul>
1.96 aaron 324: <li>SBUS qec+qe Ethernet card
325: <li>SBUS hme fast Ethernet card
1.33 deraadt 326: <li>ISAPNP Adaptec 1542
1.96 aaron 327: <li>ISAPNP SMC EtherEZ 8416 Ethernet card
328: <li>PCI AdvanSys ABP940UW SCSI card
1.37 mickey 329: <li>EISA Bustek 740C
1.40 deraadt 330: <li>Netgear FS508 10/100mbit switch with 8 ports
1.96 aaron 331: <li>A fast 4GB SCSI disk drive
1.40 deraadt 332: <li>Adaptec 1535
333: <li>New, fast, small 9GB disk drive (SEAGATE ST39102LW)
1.96 aaron 334: <li>SBUS isp fast-wide SCSI card
1.49 deraadt 335: <li>64MB memory modules for SPARCStation-10.
1.58 mickey 336: <li>Intel EtherExpress 16
1.96 aaron 337: <li>hp735 AUI Ethernet card
1.65 mickey 338: <li>GSC network and video cards, gecko's cards, memory modules, hil mouse,
339: hd brackets
1.67 deraadt 340: <li>ISAPNP GUS sound card
341: <li>ISAPNP ym/opl sound card
342: <li>Numerous EtherExpress 100 cards.
1.68 deraadt 343: <li>Intel EE Pro 10 PCI card.
1.72 smurph 344: <li>MVME197 Single Board Computer (88110 processor)
345: <li>MVME374 Ethernet Board (LANCE)
1.82 mickey 346: <li>3COM 3C507 Card
1.86 deraadt 347: <li>Syskonnect SK-9843 Gigabit PCI card
348: <li>3com 3c985-SX Gigabit PCI card
349: <li>Netgear fs509 8*100 + gigabit switch.
350: <li>Netgear gs504 4-port gigabit switch.
351: <li>pcmcia 260MB ATA card.
1.96 aaron 352: <li>9GB fast-wide differential SCSI disk.
353: <li>fast-wide differential SCSI cable.
1.90 deraadt 354: <li>ISAPNP modem.
355: <li>Weird ISAPNP sound card with IDE connector.
356: <li>SM81-1 (partial donation from <a href=http://www.memoryx.com>MemoryX</a> (they reduced the price for OpenBSD)
1.91 smurph 357: <li>MVME172 Single Board Computer. (68060 processor)
358: <li>MVME177 Single Board Computer. (68060 processor)
1.92 deraadt 359: <li>Adaptec AIC-7890/7891/7895 and AIC-7860 programmers manual
1.99 deraadt 360: <li>A medium-sized UPS for the OpenBSD mail and lists machine (Boulder Colorado).
1.101 deraadt 361: <li>MBus ROSS HyperSPARC 125MHz cpu module.
362: <li>AdvanSys 3940U2W SCSI cards (preferably two: one for PC and one for
363: Mac development)
364: <li>Sun type4 keyboard.
1.103 jason 365: <li>3Com 3c900b Ethernet card
1.111 deraadt 366: <li>Two alpha machines for Sweden.
367: <li>SMP i386 machines -- for the moment, we have received enough. Thanks. If we need
368: more, we will ask again.
369: <li>Intel FXP with National Semiconductor (DP83840, nsphy) phy Ethernet card
1.112 smurph 370: <li>EISA machine with 2 AHA-2742 Adaptec controllers
371: <li>AHA-2842 VLB Adaptec controller
372: <li>AHA-2902 PCI Adaptec controller
1.121 smurph 373: <li>AHA-2940u2w PCI Adaptec controllers
374: <li>AHA-29160 PCI Adaptec controllers
1.134 deraadt 375: <li>AHA-2740 EISA Adaptec controllers
1.121 smurph 376: <li>AHA-2940UW PCI Adaptec controllers
377: <li>AHA-2940UW Pro PCI Adaptec controller
1.120 fgsch 378: <li>3Com 3c562B Lan+Modem card
379: <li>3Com 3c589B Lan card
1.124 niklas 380: <li>12GB laptop disk
1.132 millert 381: <li>Hypersparc SS20 rom (version 2.25).
1.129 fgsch 382: <li>PC Card Standard 7.1
1.133 fgsch 383: <li>Sun PCMCIA Interface/SBus Card
1.140 mickey 384: <li>HP EISA LAN Adapter, A3303-40
1.138 aaron 385: <li>D-Link DFE-550TX Ethernet cards
1.139 deraadt 386: <li>Two DEC PCI FDDI cards
1.140 mickey 387: <li>Two 3W-5400 IDE RAID cards
1.141 mickey 388: <li>AMI MegaRAID 428, 475, and 467 series
1.145 fgsch 389: <li>SPARCStation-20.
1.152 mickey 390: <li>HP9000/712 cards: video, serial+aui, telephony, serial
1.149 hugh 391: <li>Vaxstation 3100 m76
1.152 mickey 392: <li>A VME 6U chassis
393: <li>some memory for HP9000 machines, GSC-EISA adapter
1.155 mickey 394: <li>A 6-drive scsi-II hot-swappable disk array
395: <li>Compaq PCI SMARTArray 2/P
1.164 fgsch 396: <li>Sun type 5 keyboard + mouse, SCSI+ethernet card.
1.165 mickey 397: <li>various sizes wide scsi drives
398: <li>AUReal Vortex card
1.167 niklas 399: <li>Xircom cardbus realport with GSM cable
400: <li>Adaptec RAID controller (Dell PERC 3/Si)
401: <li>2 9GB Ultra160 LVD drives
402: <li>ICP-Vortex GDT6518RS RAID controller
403: <li>4 18GB Ultra160 LVD SCA drives.
404: <li>4 Pentium II CPUs, and a bunch of DIMMs and RIMMS.
1.169 mickey 405: <li>512M PC100 222 DIMM
1.33 deraadt 406: </ul>
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