Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:39:00 +0100 From: Julien Cigar <jcigar@ulb.ac.be> To: Olivier Mueller <om-lists-bsd@omx.ch> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP Proliant DL360 G5 Message-ID: <1225287540.2775.15.camel@frodon.be-bif.ulb.ac.be> In-Reply-To: <1225285538.8164.53.camel@ompc.insign.local> References: <1225283267.2775.9.camel@frodon.be-bif.ulb.ac.be> <1225285538.8164.53.camel@ompc.insign.local>
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The one we plan to buy is this one (457922-421) : http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/be/fr/sm/WF06b/15351-15351-3328412-241475-241475-1121486-3633805.html It seems to be the same network chipset as in yours .. (https://h10057.www1.hp.com/ecomcat/hpcatalog/specs/provisioner/05/470064-731.htm) So I can consider that it's supported .. good! :-) Thanks for your answers On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 14:05 +0100, Olivier Mueller wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 13:27 +0100, Julien Cigar wrote: > > Our hardware begins to age and we plan to buy two new machines at HP. > > Our choice focused on the HP Proliant DL360 G5. As HP doesn't officially > > support FreeBSD, I checked with the "7.0-RELEASE Hardware Notes" and > > everything seems to be supported, except the network interface which is > > an HP NC373i. From what I can see, only NC370i and NC370T are supported. > > Can someone confirm that this chip is not supported > > I have just got two new DL360G5 with xeon E5420 cpus (HP Ref Number: > 470064-731), and the on-board network cards are seen from FreeBSD7 as: > > bce0: <Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B2)> mem > 0xf8000000-0xf9ffffff irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci3 > miibus0: <MII bus> on bce0 > brgphy0: <BCM5708C 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> PHY 1 on miibus0 > brgphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, > 1000baseT-FDX, auto > bce0: Ethernet address: 00:21:5a:a6:8f:f0 > bce0: [ITHREAD] > bce0: ASIC (0x57081020); Rev (B2); Bus (PCI-X, 64-bit, 133MHz); F/W > (0x01090605); Flags( MFW MSI ) > > So there are good chances it's the same on your setup? But maybe it's > a new model of mainboard... > > regards & HTH, > Olivier > > -- Julien Cigar Belgian Biodiversity Platform http://www.biodiversity.be Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Campus de la Plaine CP 257 Bâtiment NO, Bureau 4 N4 115C (Niveau 4) Boulevard du Triomphe, entrée ULB 2 B-1050 Bruxelles Mail: jcigar@ulb.ac.be @biobel: http://biobel.biodiversity.be/person/show/471 Tel : 02 650 57 52
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