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Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 21:26:01 +0100
From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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Subject: Re: support for HP NC7761 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter?
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On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 03:18:06PM -0500, Brian Reichert wrote..

Taking a *long* shot: on most recent Proliants I had my hands on
there are Broadcom chips on the MLB.

Wilko

> I think this'll be a 'no', but here goes:
> 
> A client is speccing a server, and has settled on a 'HP ProLiant
> ML350 Generation 4 (G4)':
> 
>   <http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12009_na/12009_na.html>
> 
> It seem that FreeBSD will play well with this box, but I'm worried
> about the NC7761 NIC :
> 
>   <http://developer.novell.com/yes/71329.htm>
> 
> Will the bge driver work, if I patch whatever I need to detect the PCI ID?

-- 
Wilko Bulte				wilko@FreeBSD.org