HP Proliant DL360 G5

[Julien Cigar]

The one we plan to buy is this one (457922-421) :
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/be/fr/sm/WF06b/15351-15351-3328412-241475-241475-1121486-3633805.html

It seems to be the same network chipset as in yours ..
(https://h10057.www1.hp.com/ecomcat/hpcatalog/specs/provisioner/05/470064-731.htm)

So I can consider that it's supported .. good! :-)

Thanks for your answers

On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 14:05 +0100, Olivier Mueller wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 13:27 +0100, Julien Cigar wrote:
> > Our hardware begins to age and we plan to buy two new machines at HP.
> > Our choice focused on the HP Proliant DL360 G5. As HP doesn't officially
> > support FreeBSD, I checked with the "7.0-RELEASE Hardware Notes" and
> > everything seems to be supported, except the network interface which is
> > an HP NC373i. From what I can see, only NC370i and NC370T are supported.
> > Can someone confirm that this chip is not supported
> 
> I have just got two new DL360G5 with xeon E5420 cpus  (HP Ref Number:
> 470064-731), and the on-board network cards are seen from FreeBSD7 as:
> 
> bce0: <Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B2)> mem
> 0xf8000000-0xf9ffffff irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci3
> miibus0: <MII bus> on bce0
> brgphy0: <BCM5708C 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> PHY 1 on miibus0
> brgphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT,
> 1000baseT-FDX, auto
> bce0: Ethernet address: 00:21:5a:a6:8f:f0
> bce0: [ITHREAD]
> bce0: ASIC (0x57081020); Rev (B2); Bus (PCI-X, 64-bit, 133MHz); F/W
> (0x01090605); Flags( MFW MSI )
> 
> So there are good chances it's the same on your setup?   But maybe it's
> a new model of mainboard... 
> 
> regards & HTH,
> Olivier
> 
> 
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