Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 12:32:53 +0100 (CET) From: Olaf Hoyer <ohoyer@ohoyer.de> To: Olaf Hoyer <ohoyer@ohoyer.de> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP NC7170 Dual Port PCI-X 1000T Gigabit Server Adapter Message-ID: <20041230123028.A79843@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> In-Reply-To: <20041219213641.M50992@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> References: <OFB2050BB0.241DC20A-ON48256F6C.00412507-48256F6C.00425CF0@kchome.net> <20041219213641.M50992@gaff.hhhr.ision.net>
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On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Olaf Hoyer wrote: > On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, KC Somaratne wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Is there going to be any support for the above HP EtherNet >> card in FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE? >> >> Most of the HP cards listed in the hardware notes for this >> relase seem to be end-of-life by HP..! >> > > Hi! > > Well, IIRC the 7170 is a dual-Port Intel-GigE-card, should be supported by > the em(4) driver. > > I had some time ago the opportunity to play a short time with a Sun V65x, > with 2 of those cards (I think because Sun could/would not supply us with > additional NICs we bought 7170 from a HP supplier) equipped, and FBSD 5.2.1 > worked. > > Are you just curious if they will work in a machnine that you want to buy, or > do you have real trouble in an existing setup? > Ok, some short addendum: had a short time with a HP DL 585 (quad-Opteron, amd64) to play, the 7170 was recognized without problems. The only drawback on that machine ist, that 5.3R needs long time to load, but that could have been caused by the 2 FC-cards in that baby (you will need to load explicitly acpi and firmware kernel modules for fc-cards) HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer ohoyer@ohoyer.de Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese)
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