On Sat, Oct 06, 2018 at 09:52:18AM +0000, Tim Jones wrote: > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > On Saturday, October 6, 2018 9:21 AM, Marcus MERIGHI <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > not everyone is reading want.html every day, therefore I wanted to hint > > at: https://www.openbsd.org/want.html > > > > stsp@wifi is asking for gear and we should deliver :-) > > > > "Ubiquity Unifi Ufo / Unifi AP Pro are needed for wifi driver debugging > > in Berlin, Germany. Contact [email protected]" > > > > I cannot find "Unifi Ufo", but "Unifi AP Pro" is not a cheapo Access > > Point, around EUR 160,-- here. > > > > Marcus > > Unifi not a cheapo access point ? That's a first for me! Unifi APs are > probably the cheapest half-decent APs on the market, especially if you > compare them to the typical cost of a brand name "enterprise" AP.
Great, so if you find one or two of these lying around, ship them to me. There is no need to buy a new shrink-wrapped product to cover this request. I need these because according to reports I received they seem to trigger an iwm(4) bug which I want to try to reproduce locally, in the little spare time I have, so that your and other peoples' laptops can benefit. > As someone who has recently donated, surely this is the very sort of thing > the OpenBSD Foundation should be funding ? I didn't just give money to pay > for electricity bills caused by people insisting on maintaining racks of > vintage room-heaters. Actually, the foundation does fund hardware occasionally, but those tend to be bigger and more expensive items like laptops for developers who don't have enough spare cash to buy machines that cost more than a thousand quid. If you monitor our lists for dmesgs of rather expensive machines you'll notice that they rarely come from developers who could self-fund them. By adding an entry to want.html I didn't ask the foundation specifically, I asked *anyone* out there if they have a spare unit or two of these. If you feel your donations are being misdirected, I am sorry for your perceived loss. I know they are being put to good use in this project, not just for your own benefit, but for the benefit of the open source software ecosystem as a whole. Thanks for sharing some of your money with the rest of us, and supporting our efforts.
