From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 30 11:32:57 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFA6616A4CE for ; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:32:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gaff.hhhr.ision.net (gaff.hhhr.ision.net [195.180.9.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5206A43D31 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:32:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ohoyer@ohoyer.de) Received: from gaff.hhhr.ision.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gaff.hhhr.ision.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iBUBWw5Y079858; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 12:32:58 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ohoyer@ohoyer.de) Received: from localhost (ohoyer@localhost)iBUBWr5v079855; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 12:32:53 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ohoyer@ohoyer.de) X-Authentication-Warning: gaff.hhhr.ision.net: ohoyer owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 12:32:53 +0100 (CET) From: Olaf Hoyer Sender: ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net To: Olaf Hoyer In-Reply-To: <20041219213641.M50992@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> Message-ID: <20041230123028.A79843@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> References: <20041219213641.M50992@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed cc: KC Somaratne cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP NC7170 Dual Port PCI-X 1000T Gigabit Server Adapter X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:32:57 -0000 On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Olaf Hoyer wrote: > On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, KC Somaratne wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Is there going to be any support for the above HP EtherNet >> card in FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE? >> >> Most of the HP cards listed in the hardware notes for this >> relase seem to be end-of-life by HP..! >> > > Hi! > > Well, IIRC the 7170 is a dual-Port Intel-GigE-card, should be supported by > the em(4) driver. > > I had some time ago the opportunity to play a short time with a Sun V65x, > with 2 of those cards (I think because Sun could/would not supply us with > additional NICs we bought 7170 from a HP supplier) equipped, and FBSD 5.2.1 > worked. > > Are you just curious if they will work in a machnine that you want to buy, or > do you have real trouble in an existing setup? > Ok, some short addendum: had a short time with a HP DL 585 (quad-Opteron, amd64) to play, the 7170 was recognized without problems. The only drawback on that machine ist, that 5.3R needs long time to load, but that could have been caused by the 2 FC-cards in that baby (you will need to load explicitly acpi and firmware kernel modules for fc-cards) HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer ohoyer@ohoyer.de Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese)