[haiku] Re: TuneTracker offers $1000 Bounty for assistance (BeOS related though)
- From: Kevin Ar18 <kevinar18@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:35:20 -0400
This might work:
ethernet and sound work in Haiku + 2 free PCI
Person you can contact about it (he reported it as working):
http://haikuware.com/details/asus-m2n-mx-se
Places to buy:
http://www.google.com/products?q=ASUS+M2N-MX&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=QtokTI6rIoGKlweb2835Ag&sa=X&oi=product_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CDcQrQQwAw
> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:43:42 -0400
> Subject: [haiku] TuneTracker offers $1000 Bounty for assistance (BeOS related
> though)
> From: mattmadia@xxxxxxxxx
> To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Technically this is off-topic, as it relates to BeOS.
> But it's also an opportunity for a haiku developer to make $1000,
> while at the same helping TuneTracker bridge the gap between BeOS and
> Haiku.
>
> Quoting http://www.tunetrackersystems.com/bounty.html
> =-=-=-=
> IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> $1000 Bounty Offered
>
> Dane Scott at TuneTracker Systems is offering a bounty of $1000 to the
> person who can resolve an issue with a certain motherboard that causes
> it to detect network cards intermittently under BeOS. "Everything else
> about the motherboard works great," he says, "and we'd really like to
> use it in our systems if we can. "
>
> "The problem we're encountering is that networking is a little dicy.
> We can get a network card to work, but after a reboot, we get a
> 'network device failed to initialize' error. If we go into Network
> Preferences, clear the card and reboot, it is re-found, and we can set
> up an IP address and network ok. But then after another reboot, we're
> back to the 'failed to initialize' error again."
>
> The bounty will be awarded to anyone who can do one of the following things:
>
> 1. Solve the intermittent network card detection problem by either
> altering the motherboard's behavior (through BIOS or some other means)
> or by adjusting the settings in BeOS, or a combination, whatever it
> takes.
>
> 2. Finds a way to get BeOS to use the motherboard's onboard network
> chip, by porting a driver or by whatever other means.
>
> 3. Finds a different motherboard with at least four PCI slots (or
> three PCI slots if the onboard networking works fine under BeOS, or
> two PCI slots if both onboard networking and onboard audio work well
> under BeOS.) There must be a large supply of the motherboards
> available somewhere; a minimum of 100.
>
> The person who succeeds can collect the bounty personally or instruct
> TuneTracker Systems to donate it to the Haiku project.
>
> "It might be that, once we talk with the right person out there, they
> can suggest the right fix in five minutes, and even that is fine.
> They'll still get the bounty. What's important to us that we resolve
> the issue," says Scott.
>
> Anyone who would like to try for this should contact Dane right away
> at (edit: see the phone number on the above url)
> =-=-=-=
>
> --mmadia
>
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