question about a driver - Gigabit - HP NC362i

[Michael Powell]

Erik Trulsson wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 07:33:37PM +0100, João Pagaime wrote:
>> hello all
>> 
>> any chance of the following NIC working with
>> the latests freeBSD release:
>> 
>> Embedded HP NC362i Integrated Dual Port Gigabit Server Adaptor
>> 
>> FreeBSD's hardware release notes dont look very promising
> 
> Looks like a quite good chance of it working.
> That controller is apparently based around Intel's 82576 controller chip,
> which should be supported by the igb(4) driver.
> 

And found in if_igb.c:

	{ 0x8086, E1000_DEV_ID_82576,		PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0},
	{ 0x8086, E1000_DEV_ID_82576_FIBER,	PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0},
	{ 0x8086, E1000_DEV_ID_82576_SERDES,	PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0},

So it might work. And if it doesn't because of some minor problem it might 
be fairly straightforward to get it going as Intel has a driver developer 
who is plugged into the community.

-Mike