3Interface Devices and Mass-Storage Drives 10BT/100TX LAN Controller

Installing Two LAN Remote Power On Cards

From a pure network standpoint, this is supported and both cards will be functional (for example, from the operating system, it will be possible to have two LAN cards up and running at the same time).

However, there are restrictions due to the remote manageability boot features implementation. To support these features, an internal cable is required between the LAN card and the system board. Only one card can be attached to this cable, therefore remote manageability features are supported only on one card.

The problem is that current BIOS and hardware implementation doesn’t allow to identify to which card the cable is attached and this may result in having none of the remote capabilities working properly. Also, remote boot can only work on one card.

Therefore, if a customer wants to use two HP LAN cards without using HP LAN enhanced features (Remote boot, Remote power on), then there is no problem. However, if there is a requirement to use the HP LAN enhanced features, then it is not possible, at the present time, to use the two LAN cards on one system.

Even though it is possible to install two LAN Remote Power On cards in the computer, only one card is seen by the operating system.

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