From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 31 09:20:35 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 1E8FF16A405 for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 09:20:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gkontos.mail@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.232]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C42DB13C4BE for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 09:20:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gkontos.mail@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id r28so622258nza for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 02:20:34 -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=Q21bIFr+2kNprwvsqOh3GbTmn8gkf6Kr9Xgre1FGa+Joyo8kfXlGe1e+pldK+UVvxx+xdzKtw7p7tudWjphcKadcchdwLlytRBiJbkGJfbIX0IvFCXDKdzktLi9rSFHYva4tcFhPUd2I1VVV/gXwn5bpE1wi1HE7RckAP3A4dRc= 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=V6Ih5BaJiuc89w1dQJbhWaDDhLfy7FyazVKqa1aGG0tnyfBELN7DVPh43tr3+bZVrVbLnd77oXU8lXscbsuiQJhV3W7FznnMqXuBctqjiRuL44hAC9a9p9jLKvA4Q+iLgxsOHPGYV9Hra3rCSUsYRM5xlhHJCr0q1fxziNU4sSE= Received: by 10.114.202.15 with SMTP id z15mr1125706waf.1175332833641; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 02:20:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.166.10 with HTTP; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 02:20:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 12:20:33 +0300 From: "George Kontostanos" To: "John Baldwin" In-Reply-To: <200703301545.48686.jhb@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <200703301040.37285.jhb@freebsd.org> <200703301545.48686.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: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 09:20:35 -0000 Thanks John, I'm downloading now the latest stable snapshot and I will try it on Tuesday probably. I have requested a demo blade from HP. Thanks again. On 3/30/07, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Friday 30 March 2007 01:41:47 pm George Kontostanos wrote: > > 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 ? > > That should work with bce(4) in 6.x-stable. > > -- > John Baldwin >