> and as these are blades you have no chance to plug in a > supported PCI NIC.
Hello, I don't know if that's relevant but I had no problem pluging in a supported PCI NIC card in my IBM eserver 325, after I found out the default (broadcom too I think) one was not supported. 3.4.0: net 02.00.00 8086/1229 7 0:fe020000 4096 1:00003001 64 2:fe000000 131072 Intel 82557/8/9/0/1 Fast Ethernet LAN Controller Cheers, Mathieu