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1.20      mickey      4: <title>OpenBSD: Hardware Wanted</title>
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                     18: <h2>Hardware wanted.</h2>
                     19:
                     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
                     25: being reasonable at asking for these devices.
                     26:
1.22      deraadt    27:
1.1       deraadt    28: <p>
                     29: In each case, please contact
                     30: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>
1.2       mickey     31: before simply shipping hardware around.  (So that we can decide where
                     32: the hardware needs to be shipped to).
1.1       deraadt    33:
1.22      deraadt    34: <p>
                     35: ps. as an extra incentive, Theo is willing to trade quantities of stickers
                     36: for some of these things...
                     37:
1.1       deraadt    38: <ul>
1.40      deraadt    39: <li>Sparc gear:
                     40:     <ul>
                     41:     <li>Some SBUS ultrasparc machines
                     42:     <li>Some PCI ultrasparc machines
                     43:     <li>SBUS fas fast-wide scsi card
                     44:     <li>SBUS isp fast-wide scsi card
                     45:     <li>SBUS pcmcia adapters (using STP4020 or similar chipset).
                     46:     <li>SBUS bpp card
                     47:     <li>MBUS SPARC CPU modules, especially:
                     48:         <ul>
                     49:         <li>SM51
                     50:         <li>SM61 (part numbers: 501-2613, 501-2752, or 501-1171)
                     51:         <li>SM71
                     52:         </ul>
                     53:         <strong>A single-cpu SM51/SM61 module is urgently needed by our
                     54:            sun4/600 developer</strong>
                     55:     <li>64MB memory modules for SPARCStation-10.
                     56:     </ul>
                     57: <p>
                     58: <li>PCI gear:
                     59:     <ul>
                     60:     <li>RealTek RTL8129 based ethernet card
                     61:     <li>VIA Rhine/RhineII based ethernet card
                     62:     <li>PCI adaptec 789x-based scsi boards
                     63:     <li>Adaptec AIC-7890/7891/7895  and AIC-7860 programmers manual
                     64:     <li>SoundBlaster PCI128 audio card
                     65:     <li>SoundBlaster Live! PCI audio card
                     66:     </ul>
                     67: <p>
                     68: <li>Infrastructure requirements:
                     69:     <ul>
                     70:     <li>A fast/wide differential scsi drive and cable
                     71:     <li>4-port 10/100 mbit etherswitch (ie. <a href=http://www.warehouse.com/SEARCH/bin/CATproduct.dll?product_id=151429&level=2>Netgear FS104</a>)
                     72:     <li>very cheap T1/DSL connectivity in Calgary
                     73:     <li>a fairly large UPS (Calgary)
                     74:     <li>a medium sized UPS for the OpenBSD mail and lists machine (Boulder Colorado)
                     75:     </ul>
1.3       deraadt    76: <p>
1.5       espie      77: <li>Amiga 68060 card, fit for an A2000 or A3000, preferably with fast scsi
1.15      deraadt    78:        and slots for cheap memory.
1.5       espie      79: <p>
1.14      niklas     80: <li>BT445S VL SCSI card.
1.41    ! mickey     81: <li>Intel i82586-based ethernet cards (ISA, and any other PC's bus)
        !            82:        (i.e. Intel EtherExpress 16,
        !            83:         AT&T StarLAN 10, AT&T EN100, AT&T StarLAN Fiber, 3Com 3C507)
1.3       deraadt    84: <p>
1.40      deraadt    85: <li>HPPA gear:
                     86:     <ul>
                     87:     <li>HP 9000 J2x0 w/ two cpus
                     88:     <li>HP 9000/725/100 (upgrade for 725/50)
                     89:         and/or 712/100 (upgrade for 712/80, Part #A4222A)
                     90:     <li>HP 9000/712 2nd RS-232 port card
                     91:     <li>HP 9000/712 lan and RS-232 card (Part #A4014A)
                     92:     <li>HP 9000/712 multiprotocol interface card w/ 2nd RS-232 (Part #A4015A)
                     93:     <li>HP 9000/712 2nd graphics card (Part #A4025A)
                     94:     <li>HP 9000/712 2nd graphics w/ 2nd RS-232 card
                     95:     <li>HP 9000/712 telephony card
                     96:     <li>HP 9000/735 AUI/UTP ethernet IO card
                     97:     <li>Precision I/O Architecture Reference Specification (the latest version)
                     98:     </ul>
                     99: <p>
                    100: <li>ISAPNP cards.  All sorts wanted, including:
                    101:     <ul>
                    102:     <li>GUS audio card.
                    103:     <li>Yamaha audio card.
                    104:     <li>WSS audio card.
                    105:     </ul>
                    106:     We want as many as possible, so that our ISAPNP support can become
                    107:     very rock-solid.
                    108: <p>
                    109: <li>PCMCIA: Any bizzare unused devices, including:
                    110:     <ul>
                    111:     <li>Xircom RealPort 10/100 ethernet + 56K modem + GSM
                    112:     <li>PC Card Specifications (PC Card Standard - Release 6.1)
                    113:     </ul>
1.7       art       114: <p>
1.15      deraadt   115: <li>POSIX.1 specifications document
1.1       deraadt   116: </ul>
                    117:
                    118: <hr>
1.34      deraadt   119: Since this web page was created in Oct, 1998, people have donated the
                    120: following items which we requested here.  Those people are listed in
                    121: the ranks of our <a href=donations.html>donations page</a>.  Thanks!
1.33      deraadt   122: <p>
                    123: <ul>
                    124: <li>SBUS qec+qe ethernet card
1.38      deraadt   125: <li>SBUS hme fast ethernet card
1.33      deraadt   126: <li>ISAPNP Adaptec 1542
1.40      deraadt   127: <li>ISAPNP SMC EtherEZ 8416 ethernet card
1.33      deraadt   128: <li>PCI AdvanSys ABP940UW scsi card
1.37      mickey    129: <li>EISA Bustek 740C
1.40      deraadt   130: <li>Netgear FS508 10/100mbit switch with 8 ports
                    131: <li>A fast 4GB scsi disk drive
                    132: <li>Adaptec 1535
                    133: <li>New, fast, small 9GB disk drive (SEAGATE ST39102LW)
1.33      deraadt   134: </ul>
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