Bounties
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This wikipage will document bounties -- paying for projects related to NetBSD or pkgsrc. A bounty is a payment or an award for accomplishing some specific task. Note that one person doesn't have to pay for entire project, but multiple payers can participate -- especially since pooling of money may be a better incentive. Please outline your specific needs and contact information and document your conversations and plans so others can participate or to know that a project is already in progress.
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Realtek RTL8187B Wireless Adapter Support (builtin but via USB)
Description: My Toshiba Satellite A215-S7422 has a USB-based internal wireless interface I want supported:
port 6 addr 3: high speed, power 500 mA, config 1, RTL8187B_WLAN_Adapter(0x8197), Realtek(0x0bda), rev 2.00, serial 00e04c000001 ugen0 at uhub5 port 6 ugen0: Realtek RTL8187B_WLAN_Adapter, rev 2.00/2.00, addr 3
(Email reed@ for details)
The ALFA AWUS036H is an external USB adaptor with a (presumably) similar chipset:
port 5 addr 3: high speed, power 500 mA, config 1, RTL8187_Wireless_LAN_Adapter(0x8187), Realtek(0x0bda), rev 1.00, serial 00C0CA1A653F ugen1 at uhub4 port 5 ugen1: Realtek RTL8187_Wireless_LAN_Adapter, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 3
(Email abs@ for details)
Goal: wireless adapter to work on my laptop
Current bounty: $150.00
Contributors: Jeremy C. Reed = $50; Eric Schnoebelen = US$50; David Brownlee = US$50
Status: Not claimed.
MMC card reader on Toshiba Satellite A215-S7422
Description: Support the multi-function card reader on my Toshiba Satellite A215-S7422. dmesg says:
Ricoh 5C822 PCI-CardBus bridge/MS/SD/MMC/SC (SD Host Controller system, revision 0x22) at pci5 dev 6 function 1 not configured Ricoh 5C843 PCI-CardBus bridge/SD/MMC/MMC+/MS/xD/Firewire (miscellaneous system, revision 0x12) at pci5 dev 6 function 2 not configured Ricoh 5C592 PCI-CardBus bridge/MS/SD/Firewire (miscellaneous system, revision 0x12) at pci5 dev 6 function 3 not configured Ricoh product 0x0852 (miscellaneous system, revision 0x12) at pci5 dev 6 function 4 not configured
Goal: Support above card reader at least so I can use cards from my two digital cameras.
Current bounty: $35
Contributors: Jeremy C. Reed = $35;
Status: not claimed yet.
BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless
Description: I have the following on my amd64 Compaq Presario V2658US notebook:
vendor 0x14e4 product 0x4318 (miscellaneous network, revision 0x02) at pci2 dev 2 function 0 not configured
It is a Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller. I used to use it under Linux with ndiswrapper and also with bcm43xx Linux kernel module.
I believe it is supported by OpenBSD's bwi(4) (but I never tested). Also I read on tech-kern in June 2008 that someone started working on it, but I never heard back.
Goal: Support this BCM4318 that is on my laptop. (I'd prefer not to use ndis, but getting ndis working on amd64 seems like a good project too.)
Current bounty: $35
Contributors: Jeremy C. Reed = $35;
Status: not claimed yet. As of 15/Oct/2008, I am using a working patch found via this thread http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2008/10/15/msg005158.html
Updating COMPAT_LINUX to allow Skype 2.0 audio to work
Description: Currently the audio under Skype 2.0 does not work on NetBSD.
jmcneill & cube have made some progress to the point where audio would sometimes work, but NetBSD's NPTL thread emulation appears to need some work. Potential list::
- Newer Linux libraries (for example a fedora-6 pkgsrc package)
- The kernel needs to report itself as Linux 2.6.18 or so
- Bunch of new emulated syscalls in COMPAT_LINUX
Goal: Able to make and receive calls in Skype
A mail thread on the topic is at: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2008/08/19/msg001712.html
Current bounty: $50
Contributors: David Brownlee = $50
Status: not claimed yet
Port HAMMER Filesystem
Description: Port Dillon's HAMMER file system and utilities from DragonFly.
Goal: Be able to use HAMMER natively on NetBSD. See http://www.dragonflybsd.org/hammer/index.shtml and http://www.dragonflybsd.org/hammer/hammer.pdf (section 13 is porting). And see manual pages. There is a mailing list for porting HAMMER.
Current bounty: $100
Contributors: Jeremy C. Reed = US$100
Status: not claimed yet.
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