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Date:      Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:41:47 +0300
From:      "George Kontostanos" <gkontos.mail@gmail.com>
To:        "John Baldwin" <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HP BL460c
Message-ID:  <f4775d410703301041u4d90ee5n4f73b472ad7fe6eb@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200703301040.37285.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <f4775d410703300646u70fe1370ga4128194c0d7e7f@mail.gmail.com> <200703301040.37285.jhb@freebsd.org>

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On 3/30/07, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Friday 30 March 2007 09:46:53 am George Kontostanos wrote:
> > Greetings everyone,
> >
> >  We are about to proceed to a major upgrade for our servers. I was
> looking
> > at the new HP ProLiant BL460c witch according to the technical specs at:
> >
>
> http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliant-bl/c-class/460c/specifications.htmlcomes
> > with the embedded NC370i network controller. However, after a lot of
> > goggling I found out that there are compatibility problems with that
> > controller. Any suggestions are kindly welcomed.
>
> If it's the bce(4) part with SerDes RELENG_6 will support it, though 6.2
> doesn't.  6.3 will include fully support however.
>
> --
> John Baldwin


It is the :

Embedded NC370i Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter Network Processor
Broadcom 5706

I saw that HP ships that adapter only in the AMD platform which I'm
considering of purchasing.
Any ideas about that ?

Thanks,
George



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