Your English is just fine.

Are you booting from the CD install or a USB flash drive with ESXi pre-loaded? If using a USB flash drive (you can do the same with the CD install) try this

1) verify that the driver was extracted to /usr/lib/vmware/vmkmod
2) manually load it with vmkload_mod <driver name>
3) check to see if the driver initialized the NIC with esxcfg-nics -l
4) if you don't see the NIC in the output from step 3, look at /var/log/messages to see if there are any errors during the driver load process.

has the driver been compiled for the PCI id of your NIC?

Hi
Thanks for the quick response
Installation from CD aborts no compatible network adapter, I can do no more input

2 fraenzi:
Have you manually added "--- oem.tgz" to boot options?

The original oem.tgz I've deleted and the ATL1-oem.tgz in
oem.tgz renamed and inserted at this point.
again seized and burned and iso

somebody tried it with Atheros AR8121 PCI-E Gbit LAN? This one is on that mini-ITX mainboard: http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentatio ... 01&pid=319

AR81 Family Linux driver are available here:
http://partner.atheros.com/Drivers.aspx
but how to compile it for esxi?

i wonder if the esxi driver posted in first thread will work with this AR8121 NIC on this miniITX mainboard?

There's a good example here for compiling drivers - http://www.kernelcrash.com/blog/using-a ... 009/08/22/.

Could anyone quickly rebuild the atl1e drivers for the 1969:1063 in stead of the 1969:1023? My Atheros NIC isn't recognized in ESX 4.0. Even with the provided drivers here.

If you don't get a response you can try editing the driver with a hex editor to update the PCI id list in it.

not working on AR8131 NIC
Vendor ID:1969/1063.
I tried to edit PCI ID to 1969:1063, and compiled the TGZ file to OEM.TGZ.
but i cloud not boot ESXi, system syas "the image" corrupted. When restored the original empty OEM file, it booted-up, as expected "no NIC found"

Thanks I just updated to 4.1 (running from USB ) and this oem file enabled my onboard nic.

Just a tips do not add SSH support as the inetd.conf are different in 4.1 then the older version.

The SSH is enabled as default in ESXi 4.1


But I can't get passthru to work

//Daniel