Hi!
Do you accept hardware donations? I have 3 spare (different) boards that are not supported and I don't have the time/skill to get them running. I would gladly donate them if that helps the linuxbios project.
- MSI MS-6567 (SiS chipset. flashrom unsupported) - QDI Legend V (Intel 440LX. flashrom OK) - Unidentified vendor (Intel 440BX. flashrom unsupported)
The bios rom of the latter one looks quite hard to unsolder. The other two are also soldered but look much more doable.
Hi Robert, i guess hardware donations are accepted but i don't know who's taking care of the 'distribution'. it only makes sense to me if the shipping costs wouldn't be too high (e.g. donate to someone living in your country). Please let us know where you are from so that we can find someone living somewhere near you.
this is for all the others here, too: i've smd (de-)soldering equipment (hot air and pencil soldering iron) and good normal soldering equipment at home. i've been doing professional smd finepitch work for 3 years..just if someone would need some mainboard or bios fixed or a piggyback dual-bios. just keep in mind that i live in germany, so it wouldn't make any sense to send something over from the u.s. i guess :) Holger
On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 06:08:44PM +0200, popkonserve wrote:
Hi Robert, i guess hardware donations are accepted but i don't know who's taking care of the 'distribution'. it only makes sense to me if the shipping costs wouldn't be too high (e.g. donate to someone living in your country). Please let us know where you are from so that we can find someone living somewhere near you.
I live in southern Europe (Barcelona). International (even overseas) shipping shouldn't be a problem but in that case it would be preferred if all boards are sent in the same package (either for the same developer of for local redistribution), because costs are much more per-package than per-weight.
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Robert Millan