Re: RockPro64 PCI

From: Steve Wills <swills_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2022 17:47:20 UTC
Hi,

On 2/16/22 12:36, Daniel Engberg wrote:
> Going by the information you provided it seems to be this card?
> https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/ethernet/gigabit-network-adapters/gigabit-ct-desktop-adapters.html 
> 
> That's a rather old controller (PCIe 1.1) which should be backwards 
> compatible however given the pricing of the SoC I wouldn't bet on it 
> being fully PCIe tested/compliant but that's just a speculation on my 
> behalf.
> Unfortunately I don't have that old Intel NICs to test on my end either 
> to verify.
> 
> https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/list-of-nics-and-their-equivalent-oem-parts.20974/ 
> first page might be helpful in finding older I340-based cards at least.
> 
> Unfortunately I didn't find any listings of OEM models for i350-based 
> cards although these are still (in general it seems) available as new so 
> they may be scarce pulled/used.
> 
> I did also find these cheap (if you live in US) which seems to be based 
> on the I340 chipset (not tested by me) which may also work:
> https://www.ebay.com/itm/122501625474?epid=27017868551&hash=item1c85aa7682%3Ag%3AXXwAAOSwYvFZHK9e&LH_BIN=1 
> 
> https://forum.netgate.com/topic/135149/riverbed-4-port-nic-how-to-convert-it-into-a-regular-nic 

I ended up buying one of these:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/302281308542

I'll let you know if it doesn't work when it arrives. In the mean time, 
I may try some other random cards I have laying around.

Cheers,
Steve