From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 30 17:41:50 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA85416A523 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:41:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gkontos.mail@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52D6013C4C6 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:41:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gkontos.mail@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 71so897701ugh for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:41:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=aJ5t1EU7L3PvMqbRu4Ch1bjB4pbFjQR1UlLK/OGl79uhDcdcuq8cdLHsOdCXbWTsKsJbxLFA3Ydvwb56wVTwWuO1YnAZPMa7+ng3H7PS9L/cJl3n+ACw8dmeNsyEsXwlAyTQyY/1l8M1hxL2XYVHHys7yB/jD63iAKts9vxGDo8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=R2M9uF2rTOBU05a0ZzKCW23Y6/MJbqsQB5Vdi7RDdm6TUkJ34MIAGodvyZ8jkehmwz+TYVDyUWXI2TVthVRrGHGA8tnho3D4pp3wteyKifGDglkDvFoxvFMcI2GoqaGgdNWJk0aYF9A/xyL1BwYAQVn1P+bCRFSQ8spe60+fcD8= Received: by 10.114.166.1 with SMTP id o1mr817102wae.1175276508018; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:41:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.166.10 with HTTP; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:41:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:41:47 +0300 From: "George Kontostanos" To: "John Baldwin" In-Reply-To: <200703301040.37285.jhb@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <200703301040.37285.jhb@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP BL460c X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:41:51 -0000 On 3/30/07, John Baldwin 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