Qlogic FastLinQ 41000 QL41134HLRJ-CK 4x 10Gbe PCIe3 nic, anyone have or know anything about this card?

[Button]

Found this card, Qlogic FastLinQ 41000 QL41134HLRJ-CK 4x 10Gbe PCIe Gen 3.0 Quad Port 10GBase-T Full Height Network Interface Card , while looking for hard drives.

Seems like it could be worth it being a new card.

Just found this card listed https://harddiskdirect.com/ql41134hlrj-ck-qlogic-network-adapters.html and it appears to be $1.5k. Seems suspicious.

 

[CyklonDX]

Yes, don't buy them. QLogic was bought by broadcom; there's no drivers for newer systems (win2016+ or rhel 8+), or are very buggy.

// Edit - its not correct, those are not Broadcom, but Marvell.

 

[Button]

Yes, don't buy them. QLogic was bought by broadcom; there's no drivers for newer systems (win2016+ or rhel 8+), or are very buggy.

Thanks, I'm glad i was still on the fence.

 

[Firebat]

QLogic is Marvell, not Broadcom. Drivers and Firmware get updates more or less regularly, last one for 41xxx is from 12/06/22, latest Windows Drivers support Server 2012 - Server 2022

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V E R S I O N N O T E S
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QLogic FastLinQ Ethernet Driver Installer
For Windows 2012/2012R2/2016/2019/2022
Copyright (c)2014-2022 Marvell Semiconductor
All rights reserved.

This version.txt shows the version of the installer,
as well as the component versions included within the installer.
Please see the release.txt for changes to the installer.


Version 20.87.10.11 (06/22/22)
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- Certified Cat files.
Drivers in this release include:
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qend v8.70.5.0 FastLinQ Ethernet NDIS Driver For Windows Server 2012/2012 R2/2016/2019/2022
qevbd v8.70.9.0 FastLinQ Ethernet VBD Client For Windows Server 2012/2012 R2/2016/2019/2022
qxdiag v8.14.0.0 FastLinQ Ethernet Diag Driver For Windows Server 2012/2012 R2/2016/2019/2022
qeois v8.70.1.0a FastLinQ Ethernet iSCSI Offload Driver For Windows Server 2012/2012 R2/2016/2019/2022
qefcoe v8.70.1.0 FastLinQ Ethernet FCoE Offload Driver For Windows Server 2012/2012 R2/2016/2019/2022
qeiscd v8.58.1.0 FastLinQ Ethernet iSCSI Crash Dump Driver For Windows Server 2012/2012 R2/2016/2019/2022
qefcd v8.58.1.0 FastLinQ Ethernet FCoE Crash Dump Driver For Windows Server 2012/2012 R2/2016/2019/2022

I use some of them with 4x SFP+ in different Proxmox Hosts and they work flawlessly.

 

[CyklonDX]

my bad, i must've had other nic in mind.
( NetXtreme ones)

 

[richardm]

There's are newer drivers for these. They're definitely still supported:

• qevbda 8.72.15.0 dated 6/10/24 for the base device
• qenda 8.72.1.0 dated 5/9/23 for the Ethernet function
• the rest haven't been updated in a while

We also got firmware package 16.20.00 this year from Dell. The HPE-branded adapters just got another update 1-2 months ago (even newer than Dell).