now my problem after some starting hickups on my Asus x470 Board i got the card working and installed the Windows 2012R2 driver (latest driver i could found) on my Win10 machine, the ports show “no cable connected” but it is, tried replugging the transceiver and the fibre itself several times, nothing worked, could it be that the HP card cant handle the cisco transceiver?
Wow, I was just about to make a post on the same thing. I bought a 4m Cisco active SFP+ from https://www.fs.com/ to run around a server rack last week. I was attempting to connect a HPE NIC to a Cisco switch and nothing… The cable does work between Cisco switches.
HPE claims no vendor lockdowns on PCI NICs, but I’m not convinced. Going to do some more testing this week. I heard of some drivers having an option for unsupported cables. I’m just buying name brand in the future (and research more before buying).