Sorry for asking a stupid question again.
I have downloaded the Driver from sourceforge.net and I found that there is no "e1000e.o" file but only some source file like .h or .c file. I am wondered how can I retrieve the .o file from this tar file??

You have to compile the driver for ESXi. I have links to a few samples here - http://www.vm-help.com/esx41/developing_for_ESXi.php

Hi All,

I think I may need more assist before I can finish that...
Let me describe more details in the steps I done..

1.I installed a CentOS 5.5_64bit on a VMServer virtual machine.

2.Followed the instruction, I installed the Development Tools.

3.I downloaded the VMware-esx-public-source-4.0-162945.tar.gz and put it in the /usr/src location.

4.I created a directory under /usr/src and named vmware-oss.I untar the OSS source into the /usr/src/vmware-oss directory.

5.I created a "drivers" sub-directory under the vmware-oss directory, after that, I extracted the vmkdrivers-gpl.tgz into the drivers folder.
6.I tried to run the ./build-vmkdrivers.sh, although getting a lot of errors, but finally still "ALL Done".

7.I downloaded the "intel-igb-2.4.13.tar.gz" and untar it, and numbers of "e1000_xxxxx.c" and "e1000_xxxxx.h" files are inside.

8.I am not sure which drivers are suitable for my network chip, so I tried the "e1000_82575.c" and "e1000_82575.h". I copied this two files to the following location:
"/usr/src/vmware-oss/drivers/vmkdrivers/src26/drivers/net/e1000e"

9.I made a copy of the "build-vmkdrivers.sh" and named it "build-vmke1000e.sh", chmod to "777".

10.I used vi to copy from one of the intel network card statement, changed the last two statements to:
include vmkdrivers/src26/include/linux/autoconf.h -c -o bora/build/scons/build/vmkdriver-igb.o/release/vmkernel64/SUBDIRS/vmkdrivers/src26/drivers/net/igb/e1000_82575.o vmkdrivers/src26/drivers/net/igb/e1000_82575.c

I placed this in a new line and saved the ./build-vmke1000e.sh(as atttached)

11.I run the ./buildvmke1000e.sh, and there are numbers of errors when it loaded to the "e1000_82575.c". (as attached in the putty.txt) file.

I have no idea which steps have done wrongly..I have spend two weeks on this...still confusing.

please help. Thanks!

May someone give some help?Please.

What's the PCI id of the device you're trying to get working?

The DEVICE ID for the onboard network card is:
8086:1503

Thanks!

Have you checked the VMware vSphere downloads for an updated e1000e driver? You can also pull source from here - http://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000/files/. If there's no updated driver from VMware what is the VMware source code package using for a source file for this driver?

You'll want to see at source that is at least from Nov 2010 as that seems to be when support for this NIC was added to Linux.

After 3 weeks concentrated on the driver problem..I finally gived up and bought another Intel Desktop 82540M PCI Network adapter..Now the installation is done and works prefectly.

Anyway, Thanks for your help, Dave.