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<h2>Hardware wanted.</h2>

<p>
The following list outlines hardware that the OpenBSD project could use.
Some of this is being requested so that developers can improve or add driver
support for devices which are rare; other requests are for hardware that
will improve our development environment.  In either case, we think we are
being reasonable at asking for these devices.<p>

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's much better if our developers do not need to spend the
time going through the bidding process, since any time saved can be
spend on improving OpenBSD instead.

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In each case, please contact
<a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>
before simply shipping hardware around.  (So that we can decide where
the hardware needs to be shipped to).

<p>
ps. as an extra incentive, Theo is willing to trade quantities of stickers
for some of these things...

<ul> 
<li>Alpha hardware:
    <ul>
    <li>Some alpha hardware in Europe and North America.
    <li>We are especially looking for alphas better than the
	Multia and axppci33 models.
    <li>If we do not get some of these, we are not going to
	ship OpenBSD/alpha on the 2.6 CDROM (it isn't worth our effort).
    </ul>
<p>
<li>Sparc gear:
    <ul>
    <li>Some SBUS ultrasparc machines
    <li>Some PCI ultrasparc machines
    <li>SBUS fas fast-wide scsi card (hme or non-hme card)
    <li>SBUS pcmcia adapters (using STP4020 or similar chipset).
    <li>SBUS "xbox" sbus expander.
    <li>SBUS bpp card
    <li>MBus ROSS HyperSPARC cpu module
    <li>A fast SS5 or SS20 machine.
    <li>Tadpole S3GX.
    </ul>
<p>
<li>PCI gear:
    <ul>
    <li>RealTek RTL8129 based ethernet card
    <li>PCI adaptec 789x-based scsi boards
    <li>Adaptec AIC-7890/7891/7895  and AIC-7860 programmers manual
    <li>ASIX AX88140A based ethernet cards, eg. ASIX AX88140A 10/100BaseTX
    <li>ADMtek AL981 based ethernet cards
    <li>Any supported PCI SCSI board with (at least) one narrow bus
	for RAIDframe testing.
    <li>NetGear GA620 gigabit ethernet card, or other Alteon-based board.
    <li>AdvanSys 3940U2W SCSI cards (preferably two: one for PC and one for
	Mac development).
    <li>S3 SonicVibes PCI audio card.
    <li>A wide variety of PCI IDE controllers (Promise, etc).
    <li>Initio PCI SCSI cards.
    <li>A DEC PCI fddi card.
    <li>SysKonnect gigabit PCI ethernet.
    </ul>
<p>
<li>Infrastructure requirements:
    <ul>
    <li>Really fast PC motherboard+cpu combinations.  To increase our
	development efforts on a continual basis, two of our x86 machines
	need to be upgraded about every 4-5 months.
    <li>A fast/wide differential scsi drive and cable
    <li>A small 1000mbit etherswitch, for gigabit network development.
    <li>a fairly large UPS (Calgary)
    <li>a medium sized UPS for the OpenBSD mail and lists machine (Boulder Colorado)
    </ul>
<p>
<li>Amiga 68060 card, fit for an A2000 or A3000, preferably with fast scsi
	and slots for cheap memory.
<p>
<li>BT445S VL SCSI card.
<li>Intel i82586/i82596-based ethernet cards
	(i.e. BusLogic Bt763E EISA, Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 PCI,
	 Intel Flash32 EISA, Cogent eMaster EM935/EM932 EISA,
	 AT&T StarLAN 10, AT&T EN100, 3Com 3C507)
<p>
<li>HPPA gear:
    <ul>
    <li>HP 9000 J2x0 w/ two cpus (J210 is HP A4081A, CPU is HP A4278A)
    <li>HP 9000/725/100 (upgrade for 725/50, HP A4146A) 
        and/or 712/100 (upgrade for 712/80, HP A4222A)
    <li>HP 9000/712 2nd RS-232 port card (HP A4013A)
    <li>HP 9000/712 lan and RS-232 card (HP A4014A)
    <li>HP 9000/712 multiprotocol interface card (HP A4015A)
    <li>HP 9000/712 2nd graphics card (HP A2878A)
    <li>HP 9000/712 2nd graphics w/ 2nd LAN card (HP A4212A)
    <li>HP 9000/712 TeleShare POTS iface, analog RJ11C (HP A4012A, HP A4012AJ)
    <li>HP 9000/712 IEEE488 card (TAMS 50488,
	see <a href="http://www.tamsinc.com/hp-ib712.htm">TAMS</a>)
    <li>Precision I/O Architecture Reference Specification (the latest version)
    </ul>
<p>
<li>Motorola mvme68k/mvme88k gear:
    <ul>
    <li>MVME172 Single Board Computer. (68060 processor)
    <li>MVME177 Single Board Computer. (68060 processor)
    <li>MVME327 SCSI VME Board plus documentation.
    <li>Any type of VME 6U chassis.
    <li>1 to 4 gig Non-Wide SCSI drives. (These would help enormously)
    </ul>
<p>
<li>ISAPNP cards.  All sorts wanted, including:
    <ul>
    <li>Some NE2000 and SMC ISAPNP cards.
    <li>ISAPNP cards that have IDE connectors.
    <li>3c509B or higher revision that supports ISAPNP.
    <li>WSS audio card.
    <li>CSxxx audio card, that definately has MIDI support.
    </ul>
    We want as many as possible, so that our ISAPNP support can become
    very rock-solid. 
<p>
<li>PCMCIA: Any bizzare unused devices, including:
    <ul>
    <li>A number of ISA->PCMCIA bridge cards.
    <li>Xircom RealPort 10/100 ethernet + 56K modem + GSM
    <li>EtherExpress 100 pcmcia.
    <li>PC Card Specifications (PC Card Standard - Release 6.1)
    <li>ATA PCMCIA cards.
    <li>ATA Flash cards.
    <li>Compact Flash cards.
    </ul>
<p>
<li>Miscellaneous
    <ul>
    <li>External MII (PHY) interface (HPDB40 connector)
    <li>A MIDI playback device, so that the MIDI support can be kept solid.
    <li>Any spare IDE/ATAPI devices people might have.  It's a mess,
	and high quality software requires that we have PLENTY of test
	devices in use!
    </ul>
<p>
<li>POSIX.1 specifications document
</ul>

<hr>
Since this web page was created in Oct, 1998, people have donated the
following items which we requested here.  Those people are listed in
the ranks of our <a href=donations.html>donations page</a>.  Thanks!
<p>
<ul>
<li>SBUS qec+qe ethernet card
<li>SBUS hme fast ethernet card
<li>ISAPNP Adaptec 1542
<li>ISAPNP SMC EtherEZ 8416 ethernet card
<li>PCI AdvanSys ABP940UW scsi card
<li>EISA Bustek 740C
<li>Netgear FS508 10/100mbit switch with 8 ports
<li>A fast 4GB scsi disk drive
<li>Adaptec 1535
<li>New, fast, small 9GB disk drive (SEAGATE ST39102LW)
<li>SBUS isp fast-wide scsi card
<li>64MB memory modules for SPARCStation-10.
<li>Intel EtherExpress 16
<li>hp735 AUI ethernet card
<li>GSC network and video cards, gecko's cards, memory modules, hil mouse,
	hd brackets
<li>ISAPNP GUS sound card
<li>ISAPNP ym/opl sound card
<li>Numerous EtherExpress 100 cards.
<li>Intel EE Pro 10 PCI card.
<li>MVME197 Single Board Computer (88110 processor)
<li>MVME374 Ethernet Board (LANCE)

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