I modified the driver of 4.1 to reference for the source code of ESXi 5.0, and created the test driver of ESXi 5.0. It is 8139too, r8101, and Version 8.026.00 of r8168.
R8101 driver conforms to PCIe FE Adapter of Realtek.

The insertion method of a driver is ESXi-Customizer v2.5 which is the tool which was excellent in Mr. peetz.
Please start a tool, insert the ISO file of ESXi 5.0 in the top, and insert this driver in insertion and the selection column of middle.
It is possible to insert a driver after the done ISO file.

Since r8168 driver will regrettably be overwritten by the regular driver, please carry out the following procedure after starting ESXi 5.0.

~ # cd /tmp
~ # tar xvf /tardisks/OEM-00.t00
~ # chown -R 201:201 ./etc
~ # chown -R 201:201 ./usr
~ # chmod -R 755 ./etc
~ # chmod -R 755 ./usr
~ # chmod 644 etc/vmware/driver.map.d/r8168.map
~ # chmod 644 usr/share/hwdata/driver.pciids.d/r8168.ids
~ # tar cvf net-r816.tar etc usr
~ # vmtar -c net-r816.tar -o net-r816.v00
~ # cp net-r816.v00 /bootbank/net-r816.v00
~ # reboot

By the middle not a valid exec file Although warning comes out, please continue as it is.

Thank you for your consideration.

Hi ichi,

thank you very much for providing these drivers! It looks like you are the first one who was able to make use of the ESXi 5.0 Open Source Code and build new ESXi 5.0 drivers, congratulations!

I have an important suggestion for improvement for your oem.tgz packages: You can easily avoid the problem of the customized r8168-driver being overwritten by the original one by using slightly different file names. I suggest that you name the binary module r8168-1, the ids-file r8168-1.ids and the map-file r8168-1.map. Of course the contents of the map-file then needs to be changed to

This is the best way to
a) add your driver without the necessity of any manual modification work
b) keep the original driver untouched and fully functional

For you convenience I have done the described changes to your R8168.tgz file and added it here as R8168-1.tgz.

Kind regards
Andreas

Or add you nick

Could be a way to "brand" your drivers abit

Hi Varazir Peetz,

I've just tried your script and a little thing is going wrong somewhere... Cause I'm able to load my brand new drivers 8139T00 and R8168

But if they are cleanly pushed during the setup (I can "ls" them in the directories) they are not loaded. When I run
# esxcfg-module -e 8139T00

It doesn't complain, so it seems to be the first time it's called ?!

Anyway my network card is still unrecognized and the install sequence has already aborted when I can access to the shell... this led to my second question: How could I relaunch the setup process without rebooting my server ??

Thanks a lot for your answers !!!!

Ben

Hello,

Could you possibly add the DLINK 528T id's to the R8169 driver for ESXi 5 ...?

I thought it was simply a case of adding the correct MAP but have been shot down into a tiny insignificant sub atom... I was far from the truth.

Basically, many webpages seem to show that my card, Dlink 528T, PCI-ID 1186:4300 can use the R8169 driver. I can see them in the lspci output, but loading r8169 via vmkmodLoad doesn't help.

I have a few of these cards and would like to use in my two ESXi 5 boxes (rather than just the Motherboard 8168's).

Please...?

Kind regards

Simon

D-Link 528T and 530T was added.
Please test this driver.

Hi, thanks for this...

My system is up and running on the single MoBo 8168 at the moment.

I've a spare box I can fire up that has a working nVidia MoBo NIC. Once booted, I'll add the DLinks, then add the new drivers using the procedure you listed at the top of this thread.

Weekends are "no computer" days (email doesn't count!), so I'll do all this Sunday evening and post back.

Cheers
Simon

Hi CymonZ,

if you want to add ichi's driver to an already installed system (without having to re-install it) then convert the tgz file that ichi posted to a VIB file using the TGZ2VIB5 utility that I included with the latest version of my ESXi-Customizer script.
You can then install the VIB file with an esxcli command in an ESXi shell. For details see here: http://v-front.blogspot.com/2011/11/esx ... b5-10.html.

- Andreas

You couldn't take a look at this(atl1e driver) and include them into your file ?

viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1876&p=5389#p5389

TIA
Daniel

Mr. Varazir

It created instantly using source file of Mr. Serge.
Please test this driver.