Will this card (probably) work?

Eric Joyner ricera10 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 20 17:02:17 UTC 2016


There are SFP i350 cards, but hopefully this one has a valid eeprom and
isn't counterfeit. I remember someone submitted a bug for ixgbe where the
device ID showed up as 0x0001 and they wanted to patch that into the driver.

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 9:02 AM Jack Vogel <jfvogel at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 8:47 AM, Sean Bruno <sbruno at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On 09/20/16 03:42, Lee Brown wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 1:48 PM, Sean Bruno <sbruno at freebsd.org
> > > <mailto:sbruno at freebsd.org>> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >     On 09/19/16 14:17, Lee Brown wrote:
> > >     > I am looking to purchase this
> > >     <http://www.ebay.com/itm/131922616647
> > >     <http://www.ebay.com/itm/131922616647>> card
> > >     > (LR-LINK I350AM4 Chip Quad SFP Port 1000Base-X Server Adapter
> > >     I350-F4),
> > >     > into which I intend to use 1000-LX SFP's.
> > >     >
> > >     > If I'm understanding correctly, the igb(4) driver supports the
> > >     i350 (not
> > >     > sure if i350AM4 is the same) and altq(4) states the igb(4) driver
> > is
> > >     > supported (which I'll be needing).
> > >     >
> > >     > Does this look like a viable PCIe card for me to get?
> > >     >
> > >     > Thanks in advance -- lee
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> > >     In order to really know, I'd need to know the pci-id that this
> thing
> > >     shows up as.
> > >
> > >     sean
> > >
> > > Thanks, I've reached out for that info.
> > > Otherwise, if you happen to know of a 4-port or even 2-port PCIe card
> > > that supports 1000Base-LX or SFP's that will, I'm all ears.  I'd
> > > consider a single port card as last resort.
> > >
> >
> > Pretty sure that the i350 is what you're in the market for.  Just not
> > sure if it will show up as an igb(4) nic.  If it doesn't, it'd be
> > trivial to add the pci-ids if it is just a variant.
> >
> > sean
> >
> >
> What else would it show up as :) ?
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