It's good to be back. I had to unsub because I changed jobs and lost my old email address, evidently just as subscriptions went AWOL. Preface: This is for a commercial environment, and work will be more than pleased to pay for anything we can use. The short version is that I need to support the HP/Agilent SmarTest suite on HP-UX 11.0 or later or Linux, controlling an HP83000 test frame. That requires a driver for the PCI optical interface to the 83000 mainframe. The card is marked E2777B, p/n A3850-0583 (SmarTest will not run if the interface is not detected). As far as I've been able to determine, there's no publicly released driver for any OS but 10.20, nor documentation for the interface card sufficient to write a driver in-house. The only drivers we've found come with the SmarTest suite. The problem is that SmarTest for the HP83k is only known to run in HP-UX 10.20, and 10.20 does not run at all on the PA-8700 CPUs in the j6700. There are patches to enable PA-8700, but they can be applied only to HP-UX 10.26 ("trusted" HPUX) and 10.30 (which HP apparently distributed for a VERY brief time). Our preferred solution would be to run SmarTest on HPUX 11i (or Linux or anything that will run on a machine faster than a C3600). One of our engineers is convinced that there was, probably internal to Agilent, a version of SmarTest that supported HP-UX 11.0 and the HP83K. However, Agilent has sold all that to another company which would basically like to forget that the HP83000 ever existed. Finally, although the HP83000 API is well-documented and there is software to replace SmarTest, this company has a huge investment in SmarTest test programs and would like to avoid porting them. Same goes for moving to HP93000 test frames or later, with the addition expense of the hardware. So. I'm looking for, in order of preference: A Linux version of SmarTest (which exists) *with* kernel drivers for the E2777B interface card (which Verigy denies exists). A 64-bit HP-UX 11/11i driver for that card. Extra points if it's ia64. Someone who has the resources and immediate time to develop one of the above, or to design a "shim" such that SmarTest running on Linux connects to the C3600 with the optical interface but thinks it's talking to the card. A copy of HP-UX 10.30 or 10.26 for s700. Actually, I think 10.26 was available only for s800. Again, we're not looking to bypass or violate any licensing or copyright. We just can't locate even anyone who will discuss this. Doc Shipley