HP BL460 G8 blades in Windows 2008R2 with 10g NICs
If you install Windows 2008R2 from an MDT prep done on a G6 or G7, you'll quickly spot the gaping hole where drivers should be for NIC drivers for the new broadcom 10GB network cards. Well, there is that, as I mentioned previously, plus another juicy problem with phantom iSCSI client devices appearing in device manager.
I haven't actually figured out how to install these if you need them, but if you are not, then you need to clear the yellow bangs that appear in device manager, because either you can't disable these or install a driver.
Here is the fix. Back in my early days on hands-on madness, HP used to supply the broadcom suite as standard for the nics. No longer, you need to manually install to disable these. Here's how:
To turn off the iSCSI offloadDownload the Broadcom ADvanced Control Suite from http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/netxtremeii10.php#mgmt_apps - end of pageInstall on the server with the card installedOpen the control suite and change …
I haven't actually figured out how to install these if you need them, but if you are not, then you need to clear the yellow bangs that appear in device manager, because either you can't disable these or install a driver.
Here is the fix. Back in my early days on hands-on madness, HP used to supply the broadcom suite as standard for the nics. No longer, you need to manually install to disable these. Here's how:
To turn off the iSCSI offloadDownload the Broadcom ADvanced Control Suite from http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/netxtremeii10.php#mgmt_apps - end of pageInstall on the server with the card installedOpen the control suite and change …