Hi, I tried the following card:
HP NC360T PCI Express Dual Port Gigabit Server Adapter
It uses the 82571EB chipset. I am using the Debian unstable Kernel and, unfortunately, the kernel panics during boot when the card is plugged in. However, I found a very interesting project that provides a free firmware for quad-cards with the BCM5719 chip (it replaces the blobs in the card itself):
https://github.com/meklort/bcm5719-fw
Also, these cards look MUCH more promising to me as they have just one chip instead of four like most Intel NICs and are rated at 4W maximum (instead of 10W that the Intel quad cards seem to use). I am planning to get one and see how well this works.
Edit - could this be related to the following?:
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=8374
HP NC360T PCI Express Dual Port Gigabit Server Adapter
It uses the 82571EB chipset. I am using the Debian unstable Kernel and, unfortunately, the kernel panics during boot when the card is plugged in. However, I found a very interesting project that provides a free firmware for quad-cards with the BCM5719 chip (it replaces the blobs in the card itself):
https://github.com/meklort/bcm5719-fw
Also, these cards look MUCH more promising to me as they have just one chip instead of four like most Intel NICs and are rated at 4W maximum (instead of 10W that the Intel quad cards seem to use). I am planning to get one and see how well this works.
Edit - could this be related to the following?:
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=8374