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From: Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net>
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Subject: Re: support for HP NC7761 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter?
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On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 09:26:01PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> 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?

I have some DL360 g4 and DL380 g4, they should share the same Gigaethernet
chip. FreeBSD 5.2.1-REL and up regonizes the chip fine on those two types
of systems.

Waving from sunny mexico.

-- 
Regards, Ulf.

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