Hi Gizzard. The motherboard I am using also has an Intel 82567LM on it, but the PCI ID is 8086:10de. Could you compile another oem.tgz for this PCI ID? That would help me a lot! Thanks!

Hi.

You only need to edit the simple.map file and pci.ids and add
your 8086:10de value to those files.

This example assumes that you have deterimed the PCI ids for the hardware you want to add to the ESXi PCI database files and that you have been able to access the console of ESXi.

1. cd /tmp
2. tar -zxvf /bootbank/oem.tgz (assuming you already copied the modified file to the bootbank)
3. vi etc/simple.map
--- add the necessary PCI data for your devices
4. close vi - press ESC and enter :wq
5. vi usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids
-- add the necessary description for your devices (this will be displayed in the console and VI Client)
6. close vi - press ESC and enter :wq
7. tar -cvzf oem.tgz etc usr mod
8. rm /bootbank/oem.tgz
9. cp /tmp/oem.tgz /bootbank/oem.tgz
10. cd /bootbank/
11. chmod 755 oem.tgz
12. reboot the host

You can also find the full instructions for the customizing of oem.tgz
here
http://www.vm-help.com/esx/esx3i/customize_oem_tgz.php

Hi Gizzard.

Great! I tried your suggestion and it worked! Thank you so much! I have been trying to solve this problem for months! Attached is the modified oem.tgz that I used. Thanks.

Glad to help.

Working well for 8086:10ce too.

Hi Gizzard

Could you give a instruction on how to compile e1000e.o from intel official driver e1000e-0.5.18.3.tar.gz.

it will be highly appreciated if you would like.

Hi Alonev.

It is really hard for me to provide a step by step instructions, it would take a lot of writing .

I downloaded the source both from intel and the vmware source.

Here's the source - http://www.vmware.com/download/vi/open_source.html

Basic instructions - http://communities.vmware.com/message/1140875#1140875

I followed the basic instructions to get to know how you compiled drivers for the esxi also I downloaded the realtek drivers that the community has done just to get more into how things where done.

Then I had to study the compile script that esxi uses to compile drivers, I looked at the e1000 script from the esxi source and also the script for the realtek drivers.

After that I compiled the driver with out errors but it did not work as the newer driver has some function calls to a later kernel version. I had to modify the code a lot for it to work. I copied a lot from the e1000e driver that the esxi had.

Still there are (if my memory is right) two functions in the driver I had to comment out, newer functions that I could not replace. They had calls to a newer kernel module.

This is not a easy task to do but I did manage to do it. It just took a lot of time and patience.

Hope this clarifies things a bit.

Gizzard,

You made me getting close to it. I will try. Really thanks to your great help.

I am using Gizzard's modified e1000e.o with my PC. The NIC of my PC is 8086:10ce (82567V-2 Gigabit Network Connection), same as baribal's.

It does make my NIC work with ESXi 3.5 U4. However, I am suspecting my NIC is not fully supported by the modified e1000e.0. Because when I open multiple VMs, the 2nd,3rd,4th.... VM can NOT upload files to the SMB file server,but can download. And the 1st VM can upload/download against the SMB file server. The VM is running win2008, Vista OS.

When you say the 2nd, 3rd, etc VM is that by the created order or powered on order?