Lately I troubleshoot some NIC driver problems in VMware ESXi 5.x. During the troubleshooting I needed to Identify the NIC driver, software version used and the latest driver version supported by VMware. Here are the steps outlined. Identify the NIC driver and software version: • Make a SSH connection to the ESXi host • Identify all the NIC’s by using the following command: esxcli network nic list • In this example you can see that Intel (igb) and Broadcom (tg3) NICs are used. • To identify the driver version of the Broadcom NIC (vmnic0) use the following command: ethtool -i vmnic0 driver: tg3 version: 3.135b.v50.1 firmware-version: FFV7.6.14 bc 5720-v1.31 bus-info: 0000:01:00.0 • The output list the driver and firmware version.
Run the “ethtool” command for all different NICs drivers to obtain the driver version. With the introduction of the new native mode driver, ethtool is no longer supported. Using ethtool with a native drivers results in the following warning “Can not get control fd: No such file or directory”. The following esxcli command list the driver and firmware version: esxcli network nic get -n vmnic0 Identify the latest NIC driver supported by VMware: • We need to find the hardware ID’s of the NIC by using the following command: vmkchdev -L grep “vmnic” The hardware ID contains the following parts: VID = Vendor Id (Red part) DID = Device Id (Yellow part) SVID = Sub-Vendor Id (Green part) SSID = Sub-Device Id (Blue part) • Open the VMware Compatibility Guide (HCL) webpage and choose IO Devices, • On the right you see the “Additional Criteria” Colum. Enter the VID, DID, SVID and SSID generated by the “vmkchdev” command • Click the “Update and View Results” button • The NIC is displayed, click on the Model • Expand the version of ESXi (release) used.
Erd Commander For Windows 7 Free Iso Reader on this page. Click on the the Download link (if exist). • Download the driver and use VMware Update Manager (VUM) or use “ esxcli software vib update” command to install the driver.
This is a re-post of an old post from just over a year ago, however some of the links have been updated and the versions updated so you should now use this post if you are having any trouble with the old one. We have been trying to setup a new virtual host using VMWare ESXi 5.5.0 Update 1 with a Atheros AR8161 network card. As this is one of the unsupported network cards, it kept failing upon the boot up setup process - as expected of course. As most of you will know, you can 'inject' network card drivers into the ISO installation media for VMWare ESXi so we thought that this would be a good place to start to try and get this working. Murder 3 Mp3 Songs Download 320kbps more. This turned out to be a much harder task than we thought but after 14 hours of messing about and about 20 CDR's later, we got it working.
QUICK NOTE Although this guide and our own testing process is based on the Atheros AR8161, this should work for most other network cards and we will add further below in this guide links to four different VIB files for Atheros and RealTek network card drivers that you can use without having to go through the pain we had to go through to find them! INSTRUCTIONS First of all, you should identify your network card driver. In our case it is a Quakcinn Atheros AR8161 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.30). You then need to acquire the VIB file for this network card driver to enable you to 'inject' it into the ISO installation media. We will provide the ones that we can for you to download, but if your network card is not one of the ones in the package below then you need to spend a bit of time to find your own network card VIB file. We would like to ask that if you have others that you would like to share with the community, please so that we can add a list of VIB files to this page for others to use or just post a link in the comments section to the VIB download DOWNLOAD The download is now available from our Downloads microsite by clicking the button below, just browse through the Downloads section on the microsite to find the file. The VIB files included in this current download package are: • Atheros AR8161 VIB Driver • Atheros AR8151 VIB Driver • Realtek R8168 VIB Driver • Realtek R8169 VIB Driver.
Realtek network cards and VMware ESXi 5.5. I already made my USB stick, to find out the network card driver is not there, can I integrate this by hand?