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Call For Donations - various requests

Contributed by johan on from the teach-a-man-to-fish dept.

Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) recently sent a mail to tech@ requesting various pieces of hardware donations. This is your chance to help out your favourite project so go on and read through the request now and see if there's anything you can donate or help arrange getting donated.

Please read on for the full message. 

List:       openbsd-tech
Subject:    Wanted
From:       Theo de Raadt 
Date:       2009-06-11 17:18:58


There are a few developers who could use some more hardware.

These items have been added recently to http://www.openbsd.org/want.html

- thib@ in Iceland would like a smallish NetApp (like a FAS250 or such)
  so that he can improve our NFS codebase more

- damien@ would like a huge pile of Atheros cards in France

- miod@ would like some of the SGI Fuel, Origin, Onyx, or Tezro machines
  in France

- miod@ needs a >=24port 100mbit switch since his died.

- and finally, we would like a wide variety of ACPI-based laptops to
  pass around to our ACPI developers who are currently working on getting
  ACPI suspend fully working.

If you have any further questions, go and and mail me.  Thanks.
Editors note - one thing that will most certainly pay off for Joe user is submitting laptops to the acpi developers since fixes are made daily however the diversity of the laptops (and hence ACPI implementations) out there still is far greater than any number of laptops available to the ACPI developers.

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Comments

  1. By Anonymous Coward (85.19.213.88) on

    You forgot one

    - deraadt@ needs beer.

    Comments

    1. By Anonymous Coward (78.150.27.242) on

      > You forgot one
      >
      > - deraadt@ needs beer.
      >
      >

      I thought henning@ was the most commonly in need of beer?... ;)

  2. By Anonymous Coward (82.112.146.150) on

    is an allied telesyn 10/100 switch any use? Not sure what model it is, will need to check.

    Comments

    1. By Richard Toohey (121.72.37.108) richardtoohey@paradise.net.nz on

      > is an allied telesyn 10/100 switch any use? Not sure what model it is, will need to check.

      I *think* the switch may already been sorted out ... it is no longer on want.html and there was this commit ...

      http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=124483493724409&w=2

      Comments

      1. By Miod Vallat (miod) on

        > I *think* the switch may already been sorted out ... it is no longer on want.html and there was this commit ...

        Yes, things are back to normal now. Thanks to everyone who offered me replacement switches, I might need them the next time one breaks here (-:

  3. By Timo Schoeler (95.89.45.47) on http://riscworks.net

    Hmmm... too late.

    I just sold my sgi Fuel (V12 gfx). Would have happily donated it.

  4. By Anonymous Coward (70.141.212.164) on


    I have tape drives that I can donate, but I'd only donate them to actual commiters and they'd have to be local to me (Los Angeles). Someone could act as a liaison and ship them to needs it to improve support for tape drives. I have DAT and LTO drives.

  5. By Anonymous Coward (216.68.197.72) on

    want.html, might advise about other places to buy devices, like craigslist, rather than just ebay, due to ebay becoming more problematic.

    Some buyers with money may not know, and not try again.

    Just an update/idea, for an otherwise excellent run project.

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