HP NC7170 Dual Port PCI-X 1000T Gigabit Server Adapter

[KC Somaratne]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply. I noticed that this indeed was using 
the Intel 82546EB chip after sending the e-mail to the list.

Anyway I can feel a bit more comfortable in getting this now!

thnks n rgds
-kc.


Christian Brueffer <chris at unixpages.org> wrote on 16-12-2004 09:46:02 PM:

> On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 07:54:01PM +0800, KC Somaratne wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Is there going to be any support for the above HP EtherNet 
> > card in FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE?
> > 
> > Most of the HP cards listed in the hardware notes for this
> > relase seem to be end-of-life by HP..!
> > 
> 
> According to the HP website this card uses the Intel 82546EB chip,
> which is supported by the em(4) driver.
> 
> The card should work out of the box on 5.3-RELEASE.
> 
> - Christian
> 
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