Hire a BeOS Developer
This page contains a listing of all the BeOS programming projects that are accompanied by financial incentives. Benefactors are encoraged to pool their resources to meet common goals.
Enable Printing in Mozilla
As detailed in Mozilla Bug 133013 (Comments 24, 25 and 26), $300 is offered as a reward for enabling the BeOS Mozilla build to print.
300 US dollars will be sent via paypal ($200 from Chris Capoccia and $100 from Koki) “to whoever gives the BeOS port of
mozilla the ability to print to an actual printer (printing to a file doesn't
count).”
“In order to qualify for the reward, someone must provide me with a working build
for BeOS 5.0 Intel (net_server). I have a fully supported HP LaserJet attached
to my machine that I will test with. Output must be similar to what one would
get by printing a webpage with mozilla under a different OS. You can't just
print any old mess and call it a success.”
Please contact Chris Capoccia for further details.
Atheros wireless driver
$200 is offered via paypal ($100 from Chris Capoccia and $100 from Donovan Schulteis a.k.a. Deej) as a reward for providing a working Atheros wireless driver for BeOS 5.0 Intel (net_server). One might try porting the MADWiFi (Multiband Atheros Driver for WiFi) to BeOS or merely use it as reference for their own driver. The MADWiFi driver is GPL except for a binary firmware piece.
Another resource to developers is mentioned in a post on BeDrivers.com by grunf:
Hello,
I just wanted to let potential developers know that a free atheros hal
is made available by an OpenBSD developer.
According to developer of other wifi drivers for BeOS, it should be
easy to program this into a working BeOS driver.
The source code (with BSD license meaning totally free distribution) is
available here:
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/dev/ic/ar5xxx.h?rev=1.11
Perhaps it is possible to use this code with the source code of already
available wifi drivers for BeOS to make a working Atheros driver for
BeOS?
I'm looking forward to seeing another driver for BeOS. Especially
because Atheros makes awesome and cheap wifi chipsets.
Good luck.
The $100 from Deej is added on the basis of an email sent to Chris Capoccia on May 17, 2005: “Divy me in for another $100 on that bounty – that’s what’s in my laptop too!” This is, of course, in reference to the Toshiba Satellite laptops that we both own. Deej has the P25-S507, and I have the P25-S526.
Here is the output from lshal for my wireless card:
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_168c_13'
info.capabilities = 'net.80211 net' (string)
net.linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/class/net/ath0' (string)
net.interface = 'ath0' (string)
net.linux.driver = 'ath_pci' (string)
net.address = '00:90:96:cd:d0:1b' (string)
info.category = 'net.80211' (string)
net.interface_up = true (bool)
net.linux.ifindex = 4 (0x4) (int)
net.80211.mac_address = 621005361179 (0x9096cdd01b) (uint64)
net.arp_proto_hw_id = 1 (0x1) (int)
net.media = 'Ethernet' (string)
info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_168c_13' (string)
pci.device_protocol = 0 (0x0) (int)
pci.device_subclass = 0 (0x0) (int)
pci.device_class = 2 (0x2) (int)
info.vendor = 'Atheros Communications, Inc.' (string)
info.product = 'AR5212 802.11abg NIC' (string)
pci.subsys_vendor = 'Askey Computer Corp.' (string)
pci.product = 'AR5212 802.11abg NIC' (string)
pci.vendor = 'Atheros Communications, Inc.' (string)
pci.subsys_product_id = 28760 (0x7058) (int)
pci.subsys_vendor_id = 5199 (0x144f) (int)
pci.product_id = 19 (0x13) (int)
pci.vendor_id = 5772 (0x168c) (int)
info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_244e' (string)
pci.linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:02:02.0' (string)
linux.sysfs_path_device = '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:02:02.0' (string)
linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:02:02.0' (string)
info.bus = 'pci' (string)
Please contact Chris Capoccia for further details.
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