Re: HP DL360 G5

2006-11-06 Thread Oliver Fromme
Ben Suffolk wrote:
  I am looking at purchasing a DL360 G5 and running FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE  
  on it.
  
  I can not seem to find if the embedded NICs are supported. They are  
  NC373i Multifunction Gigabit Network Adapters

Are you sure about that?

We have various generations of the Proliant DL360 (G2, G3,
G4 and G4p), and all of them have members of the Broadcom
BCM570x (5701, 5703, 5704, 5704C) onboard.  All of them
are supported by the bge(4) driver.  We're running 4-stable
and 6-stable (6.2-PRERELEASE) without problems.

We don't have any G5 machines yet, but I would be surprised
if they changed the onboard NICs to an entire different
family.

  It looks like support for the E200i SAS controller is provided by the  
  CISS device, so I think that should be ok.

Well, I can confirm that the on-board controller in the G2,
G3, G4 and G4p works fine with FreeBSD -stable (4 and 6),
and it's indeed a CISS device.

Best regards
   Oliver

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Re: HP DL360 G5

2006-11-06 Thread John Baldwin
On Monday 06 November 2006 11:42, Oliver Fromme wrote:
 Ben Suffolk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are you sure about that?
   
   I Don't have the hardware, but thats what the specs on the site say. :-
   
   Network interface Embedded NC373i Multifunction Gigabit Server  
   Adapters
 
 I just googled a bit (because we might get G5 machines in
 the future, too).  HP's NC373i module contains the Broadcom
 5708 chips, which are currently _not_ supported by FreeBSD
 right now.

man 4 bce
..
BCE(4) FreeBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual BCE(4)

NAME
 bce -- Broadcom NetXtreme II (BCM5706/BCM5708) PCI/PCIe Gigabit Ethernet
 adapter driver

:)

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