HP NCxxxx NIC cards

[Jerry McAllister]

> 
> We have a DL585 with dual Gigabit Broadcom NIC's on AMD64-5.3-RELEASE-p5 
> (both of which are configured & in use):
> 
> bge0: <Broadcom BCM5704C Dual Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x2100> mem 
> 0xf7fb0000-0xf7fbffff irq 25 at device 6.0 on pci2
> miibus0: <MII bus> on bge0
> brgphy0: <BCM5704 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> on miibus0
> brgphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 
> 1000baseTX-FDX, auto
> bge0: Ethernet address: 00:0e:7f:b0:b2:bf
> bge1: <Broadcom BCM5704C Dual Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x2100> mem 
> 0xf7fa0000-0xf7faffff irq 24 at device 6.1 on pci2
> miibus1: <MII bus> on bge1
> brgphy1: <BCM5704 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> on miibus1
> brgphy1:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 
> 1000baseTX-FDX, auto
> bge1: Ethernet address: 00:0e:7f:b0:b2:be
> 
> I'm not entirely sure which NCxxxx it is.

Well, that is encouraging, I guess.  Trouble is I can't get my hands on
one to look at this stuff and compare to see if it is the same  before 
they decide what to buy.   

Thanks,

////jerry

> 
> -Kyle Mott
> 
> Jerry McAllister wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >Does anyone know anything about NIC cards offered in the
> >HP 'Proliant' series - namely an:
> >
> >     "HP NC7761 PCI Gigabit NIC (embedded)"
> >
> >or alternatively any of:
> >
> >     HP NC7771 PCI-X Gigabit Server Adapter 
> >     HP NC7170 Dual Port PCI-X 1000T Gigabit Server Adapter 
> >     HP NC 310F PCI-X Gigabit Server Adapter 
> >     HP NC320T PCI Express Gigabit Server Adapter, 10/100/1000T 
> >
> >Unfortunately none of them show up with those designations in
> >the supported hardware lists for either 4.11 or 5.3.   Do they
> >possibly fit in to one of the groups under a different name
> >that you know of?
> >
> >One of our sites wants to buy one of these machines instead of
> >the ones we have usually been spec-ing for them.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >////jerry