Hardware wanted

Why do we want your old hardware?

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.

If you do not own these devices, but want to help us, we recommend you search on eBay 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 spent on improving OpenBSD instead.

As a reasonably large quantity of OpenBSD developers and users are in northern Europe we have setup a specific want list for that area. If you are in that region, go here first to check what developers close to you are in need of or want to work on support for.

Additional Notes

• In each case, please contact Theo de Raadt before simply shipping hardware around. (So that we can decide where the hardware needs to be shipped to).

• As an extra incentive, Theo is willing to trade quantities of stickers for some of these things.

• When shipping over International borders, never use UPS regular service, because they charge incredible fees for brokerage.

The want list

• Alpha hardware

  • Some alpha hardware in North America.
  • We are especially looking for alphas better than the Multia and axppci33 models.

• i386 gear

  • Some sort of x86 In-Circuit-Emulator, for debugging really hard bugs.
  • Aironet 4500/4800 (Cisco 340/350) PCMCIA cards.
  • Cabletron Roamabout PCMCIA wireless card.
  • Symbol Wireless Networker CompactFlash card.
  • Symbol Wireless Networker PCMCIA card.
  • Symbol LA4123 802.11b PCI card.
  • Intel i82586/i82596-based Ethernet cards (i.e., BusLogic Bt763E EISA, Intel Flash32 EISA, Cogent eMaster EM935/EM932 EISA, AT&T StarLAN 10, AT&T EN100)

• Sparc gear

  • SS20.
  • UltraSPARC-III based machine (like Blade 1000)
  • Some PCI ultrasparc machines.
  • SBUS fas fast-wide SCSI card (hme or non-hme card).
  • SBUS pcmcia adapters (using STP4020 or similar chipset).
  • SBUS "xbox" sbus expander.
  • More very fast hypersparc modules.
  • Tadpole S3GX.
  • P4 cgfour frame buffer.
  • VME cgeight frame buffer.
  • TGX+ frame buffer.
  • Integrix S20V SBus frame buffer.
  • RasterOps RasterFlex Sbus frame buffers.
  • "CompactPCI" chassis for SPARCengine CP1500 (preferably with rear slot & 1 standard PCI; without H.110)
  • Sun CompactPCI XCP-TRN I/O card
  • SparcStation 5 AFX 24bit video card (S24)
  • 2x Internal 1" CD-rom drive(s) for SparcStation 20 (p/n X578A)

• PCI gear

  • More Gigabit Ethernet PCI cards.
  • nge based gigabit ethernet adapters:
    • SMC EZ Card 1000 (SMC9462TX)
    • Asante FriendlyNet GigaNIX 1000TA and 1000TPC
    • Addrton AEG320T
  • Level1 LXT1001 based Gigabit ethernet (lge)
    • D-Link DGE-500SX
    • SMC 9462SX
    • SMC 9462TX
  • Broadcom BCM570x based Gigabit ethernet
    • 3Com 3c996-T gigE NIC
    • SysKonnect 9D21 gigE NIC
    • Dell PowerEdge 2550 server with integrated BCM5700
  • Adaptec 786x-based PCI SCSI boards
  • Any supported PCI SCSI board with (at least) one narrow bus for RAIDframe testing.
  • S3 SonicVibes PCI audio card
  • Initio PCI SCSI cards

• USB 2.0 gear

  • USB 2.0 2.5" Hard Disk Drive
  • USB 2.0 CD Burner
  • USB 2.0 Hub
  • Any non umass USB 2.0 devices

• USB gear

  • USB KVM switch

• PC Card (PCMCIA)

  • Any CardBus cards, especially Ethernet and SCSI.
  • A number of ISA->PCMCIA and PCI->CardBus bridge cards.
  • Xircom RealPort 10/100 Ethernet + 56K modem + GSM.
  • A couple Intel EtherExpress 10/100.
  • ATA PCMCIA cards.
  • Any Asix AX88190 based NE2000 card.
  • ATA Flash cards.
  • Any CompactFlash+ Ethernet adapters.
  • IBM Microdrives.

  PCI->PCMCIA adapters

• Infrastructure requirements

  • A gigabit switch
  • 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.
  • A small FDDI concentrator.
  • A fairly large UPS (Calgary).
  • A Hardware RAID solution.
  • DLT backup changer.
  • 2 or 3 brand new U2W or LVD 9GB or larger disk drives.

• Amiga gear (contact espie@openbsd.org [France])

  • Amiga 68060 card, fit for an A2000 or A3000, preferably with fast SCSI and slots for cheap memory.

• HPPA gear (contact mickey@openbsd.org [USA])

  • HP 9000 A180C,B180L
  • HP 9000/712 multiprotocol interface card (HP A4015A)
  • HP 9000/712 2nd graphics w/ 2nd LAN card (HP A4212A)
  • HP 9000/712 IEEE488 card (TAMS 50488)

• Motorola mvme68k/mvme88k gear (contact smurph@openbsd.org [USA] or miod@openbsd.org [France])

  • MVME327 SCSI VME Board plus documentation.
  • MVME339 Ethernet documentation.
  • MVME374 Ethernet documentation.
  • Any type of VME 6U chassis.
  • 1 to 4 gig Non-Wide SCSI drives. (These would help enormously)

• PowerPC hardware (contact drahn@openbsd.org [USA])

  • Apple G4 Server configuration machine.
  • PowerBook G4 system.
  • iBook system.
  • Programmer Reference Guides on any recent Apple hardware.

• Sun3 gear (contact miod@openbsd.org [France])

  • sun 3/110 motherboard (501-1134)
  • VME ethernet cards.
  • Carerra (3/1x0) 2 or 4mb memory boards.
  • Xylogics 750 VME controller.

• VAX gear (contact hugh@openbsd.org [Canada] and bjc@openbsd.org [USA])

  • Any Fast VAX: We do native builds!
  • QBUS Cards: DESQA, DELQA, DELUA, DZ, DL, CMD, CXY, etc.
  • DSSI Drives: RF35 or RF36 in BA440 ISE (or bare).
  • SCSI Drives: We need HH SE drives 2GB or larger.
  • IDE/ATA Drives: 8GB or larger, used for NFS shares.
  • Networking: An 8 port 10/100 stackable switch.
  • Misc Cables: MMJ serial, BC21M DSSI.
  • Critical Spares: KFQSA, VAX 4000 100.
  • Misc: Door key for a BA440 chassis.
  • Any unsupported VAX hardware!
  • Memory: 2 MS40-BA kits (8MB VLC), 3 MS44L-BA (8MB MicroVAX 3100)

• ISAPNP cards

  We want as many as possible, so that our ISAPNP support can become very rock-solid. All sorts wanted, including:
  • ISAPNP cards that have IDE connectors.
  • WSS audio card.
  • CSxxx audio card, that definitely has MIDI support.

• Miscellaneous

  • Any Ultra, Ultra/Wide, LVD SE SCSI drives. We need these to further SCSI driver development. Please, please, please!
  • Any Ultra, Ultra/Wide, LVD SE SCSI cables. Internal and External. Also needed for new SCSI driver development.
  • External MII (PHY) interface (HPDB40 connector)
  • A MIDI playback device, so that the MIDI support can be kept solid.
  • 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!

• Documentation

  • POSIX.1 specifications document (purchased from IETF).
  • Any other major relevant Unix standards document (i.e. XPG, Unix99, etc)

Want list for Northern Europe (contact niklas@openbsd.org [Sweden])

• SMP hardware

  • SMP-capable i386 motherboards with or without CPUs.
  • Intel CPUs in matching pair or more.
  • SMP-capable alpha computers.
  • SMP-capable sparc computers.

• Storage

  • Large (20-30 GB) laptop IDE disks.
  • Wide, Ultra-wide and Ultra2, & Ultra160 LVD SCSI disks.
  • Large SCSI tape device (>30GB uncompressed), preferably with a changer.
  • UW/LVD SCSI cables.
  • Unsupported hardware RAID cards.
  • External disk enclosures, preferrably rack-mountable. Hot-swap functionality is yet a bonus.
  • Any kind of RAM, SIMMs & DIMMs are always useful.

• PCMCIA & Cardbus

  • ISA-PCMCIA & PCI-Cardbus bridge cards

• Network

  • 1000baseSX GBIC
  • HP 4000M Gigabit ethernet modules, both 1000baseSX and copper is interesting.
  • IEEE 802.11b base station.

• Miscellaneous

  • A 19" rack in the vicinity of Gothenburg.
  • Rack-mountable cases accepting regular AT or ATX motherboards.
  • A small UPS.
  • Electronic console switch.

Want list for South America (contact fgsch@openbsd.org [Argentina])

• VAX gear

  • Any Fast VAX.

• Sparc gear

  • SS20 VSIMM.
  • Floppy drive.
  • Any supported Sparc hardware.
  • A Sun-compatible SCSI CD-Rom drive for an Ultra 1.

• PCMCIA

  • PCI-PCMCIA & PCI-Cardbus bridge cards.
  • Any xe(4) 10/100 card.

• Token Ring

  • Any token ring cards.

• Infrastructure

  • A 100Mbit hub.
  • Any x86 mobo with cpu.

Previously Donated

• SBUS qec+qe Ethernet card
• SBUS hme fast Ethernet card
• ISAPNP Adaptec 1542
• ISAPNP SMC EtherEZ 8416 Ethernet card
• PCI AdvanSys ABP940UW SCSI card
• EISA Bustek 740C.
• Netgear FS508 10/100mbit switch with 8 ports
• A fast 4GB SCSI disk drive.
• Adaptec 1535
• New, fast, small 9GB disk drive (SEAGATE ST39102LW)
• SBUS isp fast-wide SCSI card
• 64MB memory modules for SPARCStation-10.
• Intel EtherExpress 16.
• hp735 AUI Ethernet card.
• GSC network and video cards, gecko's cards, memory modules, hil mouse, hd brackets.
• ISAPNP GUS sound card
• ISAPNP ym/opl sound card
• Numerous EtherExpress 100 cards.
• Intel EE Pro 10 PCI card.
• MVME197 Single Board Computer (88110 processor)
• MVME374 Ethernet Board (LANCE)
• 3COM 3C507 Card
• Syskonnect SK-9843 Gigabit PCI card
• 3com 3c985-SX Gigabit PCI card
• Netgear fs509 8*100 + gigabit switch.
• Netgear gs504 4-port gigabit switch.
• pcmcia 260MB ATA card.
• 9GB fast-wide differential SCSI disk.
• fast-wide differential SCSI cable.
• ISAPNP modem.
• Weird ISAPNP sound card with IDE connector.
• SM81-1 (partial donation from MemoryX (they reduced the price for OpenBSD)
• MVME172 Single Board Computer. (68060 processor)
• MVME177 Single Board Computer. (68060 processor)
• Adaptec AIC-7890/7891/7895 and AIC-7860 programmers manual
• A medium-sized UPS for the OpenBSD mail and lists machine (Boulder Colorado).
• MBus ROSS HyperSPARC 125MHz cpu module.
• AdvanSys 3940U2W SCSI cards (preferably two: one for PC and one for Mac development)
• Sun type4 keyboard.
• 3Com 3c900b Ethernet card
• Two alpha machines for Sweden.
• SMP i386 machines -- for the moment, we have received enough. Thanks. If we need more, we will ask again.
• Intel FXP with National Semiconductor (DP83840, nsphy) phy Ethernet card
• EISA machine with 2 AHA-2742 Adaptec controllers
• AHA-2842 VLB Adaptec controller
• AHA-2902 PCI Adaptec controller
• AHA-2940u2w PCI Adaptec controllers
• AHA-29160 PCI Adaptec controllers
• AHA-2740 EISA Adaptec controllers
• AHA-2940UW PCI Adaptec controllers
• AHA-2940UW Pro PCI Adaptec controller
• 3Com 3c562B Lan+Modem card
• 3Com 3c589B Lan card
• 12GB laptop disk
• Hypersparc SS20 rom (version 2.25).
• PC Card Standard 7.1
• Sun PCMCIA Interface/SBus Card
• HP EISA LAN Adapter, A3303-40.
• D-Link DFE-550TX Ethernet cards
• Two DEC PCI FDDI cards
• Two 3W-5400 IDE RAID cards.
• AMI MegaRAID 428, 475, and 467 series.
• SPARCStation-20.
• HP9000/712 cards: video, serial+aui, telephony, serial.
• Vaxstation 3100 m76
• A VME 6U chassis
• some memory for HP9000 machines, GSC-EISA adapter.
• A 6-drive scsi-II hot-swappable disk array.
• Compaq PCI SMARTArray 2/P.
• Sun type 5 keyboard + mouse, SCSI+ethernet card.
• various sizes wide scsi drives.
• AUReal Vortex card.
• Xircom cardbus realport with GSM cable.
• Adaptec RAID controller (Dell PERC 3/Si).
• 2 9GB Ultra160 LVD drives.
• ICP-Vortex GDT6518RS RAID controller.
• 4 18GB Ultra160 LVD SCA drives.
• 4 Pentium II CPUs, and a bunch of DIMMs and RIMMS.
• 512M PC100 222 DIMM.
• Sparc20 CD-rom.
• Sun PCMCIA Interface/SBus Card.
• HP9000/C360
• Original DPT RAID card.
• Dell Perc 3/DC Raid controller
• ABit BP6 Dual-PPGA motherboard
• Sparc Quad Fast Ethernet card.
• 3Com 3C19250 USB ethernet card.
• MVME197LE card.
• ROSS HyperSPARC 150MHZ cpu + 2.25 prom, 2 64MB DIMMs for Sparc.
• Sun type 5 keyboard + mouse, Sparc20 CD-rom and floppy.
• Xircom Realport 10/100+Modem 56.
• SunSwift card.
• USB PCI controller and hard drive enclosure.
• SoundBlaster Audigy.
• UltraSparc 1 170/E, SunSwift card.
• BC21M-09 Cable.
• 2 Prism II cards, PCI adapter.
• PBT-315 PCI Analyzer
• SS20 VSIMM
• Vigra VS10 SBus framebuffer
• Two power supplies for "Aurora" chassis (SS 5/20)
• SBUS TGX+ framebuffer