I have a Precision T3500 that uses a Broadcom 5761 network card. This is not supported by ESXi 4 but I was able to get the hypervisor installed by install a Intel 1000/Pro card. Sadly this card is recognized but something is wrong with the card. I have been able to get a Pro100 card to work but really want gigabit support

I have seen a number of post in regards to people that have similar machines that use this chipset trying to use this card but having to purchase another card. After some reading it seems possible to create a driver to provide support for this card since I was able to find the Linux drivers for the card here: http://www.broadcom.com/support/etherne ... 570x-Linux

I've tried following the steps here but did not get far. Does anyone have the setup in which they could generate the correct oem.tgz
http://www.vm-help.com/esx40i/customize_oem_tgz.php
http://www.kernelcrash.com/blog/using-a ... 009/08/22/

Here are steps I've taken so far:
Downloaded: VMware-esx-public-source-4.0-162945.tar.gz
Downloaded: CentOS-5.4-x86_64-netinstall.iso
Downloaded Linux drivers for card: linux-3.99k.zip

Determine the card information for "simple.map" file.
BCM5761 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
Class 0200: 14e4:1681

I as able to follow the steps here: viewtopic.php?p=3616#p3616 and load the tg3.o which in turn I was able to see my Broadcom card.

I next modified the oem.tgz and added a line to the simple.maps for the card: so now it loads upon boot.

The oem.tgz file I've attached also includes support for a Intel 100/Pro card as that's what I was originally using.

Thank you for taking the time to post this.

@Dave,

Would you ad Broadcom 5761 to the page here: http://www.vm-help.com/esx40i/customize_oem_tgz.php

Thanks

The change has been made now.