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CymonZ
Joined: Mon Nov 21, 2011 11:31 pm
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 Re: Realtek test drivers of ESXi 5.0 Hii Andreas, I have the script and used it once to try and do this, alas failed. Im about to try again and just checked here before hand... so I'll download again follow your script. Many thanks Simon peetz wrote: 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 CymonZ wrote: 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
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| Mon Nov 28, 2011 7:27 am |
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CymonZ
Joined: Mon Nov 21, 2011 11:31 pm
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Re: Realtek test drivers of ESXi 5.0 Pictures speak louder than words...  The new drivers work fine on the test system, an Asus P5N73-CM motherboard. ESXi cant see any drives so its a good test box for PCI cards! At first the new card only linked in at 100Mbits, it took a cable change to get 1000Mbits ! I'll apply to the "real" box when I can; Asus P7P55D where the on-board NIC and SATA devices are recognised out of the box. Thank-you to everyone involved. Quote: ~ # esxcli software acceptance set --level=CommunitySupported
Host acceptance level changed to 'CommunitySupported'.
~ # df
Filesystem Bytes Used Available Use% Mounted on
NFS 1999734636544 656119939072 1343614697472 33% /vmfs/volumes/a
vfat 261853184 133619712 128233472 51% /vmfs/volumes/f68e8fef-c3421d60-cd88-e359740763e7
vfat 261853184 133632000 128221184 51% /vmfs/volumes/ebc036e1-31e6e91b-973a-2054c1b5550a
vfat 299712512 184737792 114974720 62% /vmfs/volumes/4ed366f9-a337ae1f-9e00-0023546fe277
~ # ls /vmfs/volumes/a
DLink-528T-1.x86_64.vib
~ # lspci | grep Net
000:000:15.0 Network controller: nVidia Corporation nVidia NForce Network Controller [vmnic0]
000:001:06.0 Network controller: D-Link System Inc DGE-528T Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
~ # esxcli software vib install -v /vmfs/volumes/a/DLink-528T-1.x86_64.vib
Installation Result
Message: The update completed successfully, but the system needs to be rebooted for the changes to be effective.
Reboot Required: true
VIBs Installed: DLink_bootbank_DLink-528T_1
VIBs Removed:
VIBs Skipped:
~ # reboot
... a little while later ...
~ # lspci | grep Net
000:000:15.0 Network controller: nVidia Corporation nVidia NForce Network Controller [vmnic0]
000:001:06.0 Network controller: D-Link System Inc DGE-528T Gigabit Ethernet Adapter [vmnic1]
~ #
Attachments:
File comment: For those that simply want the file. Unzip and use datastore browser to move to the ESXi host.
DLink-528T-1.x86_64.vib.zip [23.96 KiB]
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| Mon Nov 28, 2011 12:11 pm |
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Varazir
Joined: Wed Mar 18, 2009 1:32 pm
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Re: Realtek test drivers of ESXi 5.0 ichi wrote: Mr. Varazir
It created instantly using source file of Mr. Serge.
Please test this driver. Thanks, I'm going to try it out and I'll let you know the outcome. //Daniel
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| Mon Nov 28, 2011 12:25 pm |
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Joemuscat
Joined: Tue Nov 29, 2011 1:03 pm
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Re: Realtek test drivers of ESXi 5.0 Ichi and all.
You're bloody marvelous. Thank you so much for this.
I was pointed here by CymonZ whilst trying to sort my D-link nics and now all is hunky dory.
Thanks once again. Joe.
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| Tue Nov 29, 2011 1:23 pm |
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Varazir
Joined: Wed Mar 18, 2009 1:32 pm
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Re: Realtek test drivers of ESXi 5.0 ichi wrote: Mr. Varazir
It created instantly using source file of Mr. Serge.
Please test this driver. Worked Running ESXi 5 on my server now. Thanks to peetz for his script. I just love booting from USB, I created the USB drive in a vmplayer then pluged it in to my server.
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| Wed Nov 30, 2011 10:31 am |
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nerfherd
Joined: Sat Dec 03, 2011 3:33 am
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Re: Realtek test drivers of ESXi 5.0 ichi wrote: D-Link 528T and 530T was added.
Please test this driver. Hey, I can't get my D-Link DGE-530T(rev 11) to work, I find it with lspci but it dosen't get a vmnic id when I try to add the converted vib-file from the quoted driver. What kind of info do you need from me? Regards
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| Sat Dec 03, 2011 3:42 am |
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ichi
Joined: Wed Feb 16, 2011 6:26 am
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Location: Japan
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Re: Realtek test drivers of ESXi 5.0 Marvell 88E8001 card is used depending on the rev 11 of D-Link 530T.
Test driver of Marvell "skge" was created, please also try this.
I do not have D-Link 530T, the test has not been done.
Attachments:
File comment: Marvell 88E8001 card driver for 530T(rev 11)
skge-1.13.x86_64.vib.zip [30.26 KiB]
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| Sun Dec 04, 2011 5:06 am |
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CymonZ
Joined: Mon Nov 21, 2011 11:31 pm
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Re: Realtek test drivers of ESXi 5.0 Ichi and Andreas, As Joe said quite poetically... " bloody marvellous" Now working in Asus P7P55D mobo, on-board NIC + 2 DLink 528Ts, 16Gb, 60GB SSD Boot, 4x500Gb SATA, iCore5 @ 2.9Ghz. Goes like a rocket.... Thanks you... Simon Joemuscat wrote: Ichi and all.
You're bloody marvelous. Thank you so much for this.
I was pointed here by CymonZ whilst trying to sort my D-link nics and now all is hunky dory.
Thanks once again. Joe.
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nerfherd
Joined: Sat Dec 03, 2011 3:33 am
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Re: Realtek test drivers of ESXi 5.0 ichi wrote: Marvell 88E8001 card is used depending on the rev 11 of D-Link 530T.
Test driver of Marvell "skge" was created, please also try this.
I do not have D-Link 530T, the test has not been done. Hey, sorry I haven't got back to you but with that driver I found the card. Now I'm going to test it. Thanks a bunch! Superb work
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| Sat Dec 10, 2011 2:00 am |
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vmmaddin
Joined: Tue Dec 13, 2011 2:33 am
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Re: Realtek test drivers of ESXi 5.0 Mr. ichi, unfortunately Daniel provided a Link with a quite old version of the atl1e driver. Here is a newer one which supports even more motherboard modells: viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2735&hilit=1083Could you kindly convert this to a ESX 5.0 driver? Thank you! Martin
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| Tue Dec 13, 2011 2:39 am |
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