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I could write a driver for USB accelerometer if someone whould mail me hw.

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<h2><font color="#e00000">Hardware wanted</font></h2>
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The following list outlines hardware that the OpenBSD project could use.
There are a number of reasons why developers need hardware, and it is important
to first of all realize these reasons:
<ul>
<li>To support a specific device, normally one which is more rare or new.
<li>To be part of their development environment
<li>Some types of machines may be different in some way
    (ie. big-endian or unsigned-char) and ensure that developers
    write code more carefully.
<li>That said, space or power may be at a premium for some people
</ul>
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If you do not own these devices, but want to help us, we recommend you
search on <a href="http://www.ebay.com">eBay</a> for the devices.  If
you do the bidding and then get the device shipped to us, it really
helps us.  It is better if developers develop, and skip the bidding process,
since any time saved can be spent on improving OpenBSD instead.<p>

If it is clear which specific developer should be contacted, please do
so directly.  Otherwise contact <a href="mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org">Theo de Raadt</a>
who will pass on the message to whichever developers are in need.<p>

Please be very clear as to where you are located!!  For larger items this
can be very important.

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<h3><font color="#e00000">Specific developers to contact for various reasons</font></h3>
<ul>
<li>miod@openbsd.org and martin@openbsd.org for "older hardware" in Europe.
<li>wvdputte@openbsd.org for shipping assistance inside Europe.
<li>deraadt@openbsd.org for any general offers or questions.
<li>jsg@openbsd.org for any new wireless equipment.
</ul>
If you do not get a response from these developers, please consider
contacting another developer.
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<h3><font color="#e00000">General device requirements.</font></h3>
We try to spread these types of devices around our development community.
<ul>
<li><em>Narrow SCSI</em> disk drives of 2GB or more, 3.5" size.
    (Narrow SCSI means 50pin).<br>
    Many developers are running out of these drives, which are needed
    to continue supporting older hardware.<br>
<li>A few 1U 1Gbit switches with many ports.
<li>Laptops.  These die often enough that our developers need about 2-3
    replacements a year.
<li>Apple Mac powerpc equipment.
<li>Faster &amp; smaller sparc64 machines, for instance 1U rack mount machines
<li>Any amd64 or faster i386 hardware which comes available.
<li>We generally do not need older and "very common" ISA/PCI equipment, since
    our developers will generally have gotten their hands on these in the
    past.
</ul>
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<h3><font color="#e00000">10Gb Ethernet Support</font></h3>
David Gwynne (in Australia), Reyk Floeter (in Germany), and Claudio Jeker (in
Switzerland) are working on support for 10 Gigabit Ethernet devices. These
developers would like the following hardware to help development:
<ul>
  <li>Switches with 10Gb modules for hacking
  <li>CX4 cabling
  <li>HP XFP's for 3500yl switches, preferrably with SR optics.
  <li>XFP optical cabling (for 10GbaseSR and 10GbaseLR)
  <li><a href="http://www.neteffect.com/products.html">NetEffect 10Gb NICs</a>
  for driver development
  <li><a href="http://www.sun.com/products/networking/ethernet/10gigethernet/index.xml">Sun
  Multithreaded 10 GbE Networking Cards</a> for driver development
</ul>
Contact dlg@openbsd.org, reyk@openbsd, and claudio@openbsd.org.
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<h3><font color="#e00000">Specific devices needed by specific developers</font></h3>
<ul>
<li>Bluetooth devices, especially phones, keyboards, mice, and headsets.
    Contact uwe@openbsd.org.
<li>A PCI bus analyser would be really useful for working on undocumented hardware,
    required in Melbourne, Australia.
    Contact jsg@openbsd.org.
<li>19" rack required in Melbourne, Australia.
    Contact jsg@openbsd.org.
<li>UltraSPARC III machine with PCI Express for driver development/sparc64
    testing in Melbourne, Australia.
    Contact jsg@openbsd.org.
<li>A battery (slim or extended) for an IBM X40 laptop
    in Melbourne, Australia. Contact djm@openbsd.org.
<li>CompactFlash GPRS card such as the Audiovox RTM-8000D needed in Madison, WI.
    Contact jolan@openbsd.org.
<li>umodem(4) based EVDO device needed in Madison, WI.
    Contact jolan@openbsd.org.
<li>Elan Digital Systems U132 USB -&gt; Cardbus Adapter needed in Madison, WI.
    Contact jolan@openbsd.org.
<li>An LSI Logic
    <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.lsil.com/storage_home/products_home/host_bus_adapters/sas_hbas/lsisas3041er/index.html">SAS3041E-R</a>
    or
    <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.lsil.com/storage_home/products_home/host_bus_adapters/sas_hbas/lsisas3442er/index.html">SAS3442E-R</a>
    needed in Brisbane, Australia.
    Contact dlg@openbsd.org.
<li>A Fibre Channel DB9 Copper GBIC.
    Contact dlg@openbsd.org.
<li>An amd64 machine needed for RAID development in Brisbane, Australia.
    Preferably a Sun x4100 or x4200.
    Contact dlg@openbsd.org.
<li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ciss&amp;sektion=4">ciss(4)</a>
    and
    <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gdt&amp;sektion=4">gdt(4)</a>
    RAID cards for bio and bioctl development needed in Austin, Texas, USA.
    Contact marco@openbsd.org.
<li>Fast machine with PCIe bus for <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mfi&amp;sektion=4">mfi(4)</a> development.
    Contact marco@openbsd.org.
<li>DG AViiON hardware needed in France.
    Contact miod@openbsd.org.
<li>Several developers need SDIO (any function) and SD/MMC memory cards.
    Contact uwe@openbsd.org.
<li>Two CF- and SDIO-attached GPS receiver and devices that provide exact time
    information for timedelta sensor related development radio clock in Basel,
    Switzerland and Edmonton, Alberta.
    Contact mbalmer@openbsd.org and ckuethe@openbsd.org.
<li>Two <a href="http://www.bwi.com/prod/572922">MiniPCI GPS Receivers</a>
    for timedelta sensor related development in Edmonton, Alberta and Basel,
    Switzerland. The appropriate antenna and MiniPCI-to-PCI adapters would
    also be useful.
    Contact ckuethe@openbsd.org and mbalmer@openbsd.org.
<li>Serial attached GPS receivers with pulse-per-second outputs and weather-
    resistant enclosures in Edmonton, Alberta and Basel, Switzerland.
    Requested models include Magellan AC12, NovAtel SuperStarII Smart Antenna
    and Garmin GPS18/LVC and the Garmin GSP18 5 Hz models.
    Contact mbalmer@openbsd.org and ckuethe@openbsd.org.
<li>A high capacity battery for an IBM X40 laptop is needed in Basel,
    Switzerland; contact mbalmer@openbsd.org.
<li>A very fast i386 machine (3GHz and up) for ports development and
    ports testing needed in Hamburg, Germany.
    Contact bernd@openbsd.org.
<li>A Vodafone mobile connect 'super 3G' USB modem, an Option GT 3G+ and 
    newer Novatel Wireless HSDPA/UMTS cards (Merlin U730 and U870) needed 
    for driver development in Oldenburg, Germany.
    Contact fkr@openbsd.org.
<li>A UPS is needed for multi-architecture infrastructure in Central USA.
    Contact drahn@openbsd.org.
<li>An Intel PRO/10GbE CX4 Server Adapter (PXLA8591CX4) needed in Calgary, Canada.
    Contact deraadt@openbsd.org.
<li>Two UltraSPARC-II 450MHz CPUs and additional RAM for an Enterprise 420R
    needed in Zurich, Switzerland.
    Contact claudio@openbsd.org.
<li>Any device (monitor or projector) able to output a 1728x2304 image,
    sync on green, with either a 13W3 or an HD15 connector needed in Toulouse,
    France.
    Contact miod@openbsd.org, short-term loan acceptable.
<li>An amd64 with more than 4 GB RAM for hacking on large memory support
    in i386 and amd64, needed in London, UK.
    Contact tom@openbsd.org.
<li>Any speech synthesizer devices such as DECTalk, DoubleTalk or Dolphin Apollo.
    Contact deanna@openbsd.org.
<li>6-pin Firewire devices, especially 3.5" hard disk enclosures, needed in
    Oldenburg, Germany. Contact fkr@openbsd.org.
<li>A 1000baseLX SFP and LC to SC single mode fiber-optic cable needed in
    Assen, the Netherlands.
    Contact kettenis@openbsd.org.
<li>A large LCD monitor needed in New York City, USA.
    Contact ray@openbsd.org.
<li>A battery and a power supply for an IBM Thinkpad X40 is needed in Munich, Germany.
    Contact markus@openbsd.org.
<li>GPS receiver with PPS (pulse per second), e.g. Garmin GPS 18 LVC,
    needed in the Netherlands.
    Contact otto@openbsd.org.
<li>USB Touchscreens are needed to work on calibration support in
    Toulouse, France and Budapest, Hungary.
    Contact matthieu@openbsd.org and robert@openbsd.org.
<li>Zaurus C3000/C3100/C3200 in Illinois.  Contact drahn@openbsd.org.
<li>Zaurus C3100/C3200 in Calgary.  Contact deraadt@openbsd.org.
<li>amd64/opteron Socket 939 x2 CPU in Toronto. Contact ian@openbsd.org.
<li>X60 power supply (schuko plug, preferably) and X60 dock (X6 UltraBase)
    battery in Aalborg, Denmark.
    Contact mk@openbsd.org.
<li>Ultrasparc III machines (Blade 1000, v210, etc) especially if they are
    dual-processor, wanted in Europe.  Unfortunately not the old slow ones,
    because they must be less than fridge-sized.
    Contact art@openbsd.org.
<li>An X series Thinkpad or similarly sized laptop with enhanced speedstep.
    needed in Windsor, Ontario.
    Contact gwk@openbsd.org.
<li>Itanium 1U or 2U machines wanted in various places.
    Contact deraadt@openbsd.org.
<li>PowerBook G4 laptop for testing purposes in Central USA.
    Contact drahn@openbsd.org.
<li>A SATA-II drive around 300Gb needed in Gorinchem, the Netherlands.
    Contact jasper@openbsd.org.
<li>HP J6700/J6750 2U hppa64 machines.  Note these are fairly cheap on Ebay
    at the moment.  Contact deraadt@openbsd.org.
<li>A hard disk bracket for an HP B1000/B2000/C3xxx machine
    (with or without disk) needed in Assen, the Netherlands.
    Contact kettenis@openbsd.org.
<li>A 1.4GHz or 1.6GHz IBM Thinkpad x40 laptop for Calgary.
    Contact deraadt@openbsd.org.
<li>AMD64 or EM64T machine with 8GB+ of RAM (or $1700 to buy one) needed
    in Edmonton.  Contact weingart@openbsd.org.
<li>A Neo 1973 Advanced Kit needed in New York City, USA.
    Contact ray@openbsd.org.
<li><a href="http://phidgets.com/products.php?product_id=1053">Phidgets USB
    accelerometer</a> needed in Russia.  Contact grange@openbsd.org.
</ul>
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<h2><font color="#e00000">Software wanted</font></h2>
<ul>
<li>Licenses for recent Maple for Linux, or Mathematica, or similar
    software. I no longer use these for regular work, but I would be willing
    to try and make sure it can be installed seamlessly through the ports
    tree.
    Contact espie@openbsd.org.
</ul>
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