Hello,
I have Motherboards ASUS P5Q-EM nad additional NIC card 4 ports DLINK DFE 580TX.
I installed ESXi 3,5 when I had setup in Bios SATA AHCI. WHEN I have setting for SATA IDE than I cannot install ESXi 3,5. When I installed ESXi I found error with lvmdriver and my NIC c ard cannot be recognize. Question is ESXi support DLINK 580TX? I found that I ghave to add to iso of ESXi driver for integrated nic card on ASUS Motherboards.
Other question is, can I use AHCI for SATA disk or I have to change settings? If it is possible I can install 4.1 but I think that is not support, I do not have 64bit architectue.
Than k You for help

Best regards,
Sebastian

For ESXi 4.x you would require a 64 bit CPU.

I'm not aware of an ESXi 3.x driver for the DLink NIC so you would either have to compile one or swap in another NIC. An Intel Pro 1000 GT is a common choice.

Hello,
I think that I have 64 bit processor. I have Intel quad 6600 but I have these errors.

Best regards,

With ESXi 4.x you'll get an lvmdriver error if ESXi can't recognize a NIC. With ESXi 3.x it'll install (even if ESXi can't see a NIC), but you'll have IP address issues on first boot.

Hello,
can I use linux driver for cardf network Dlink DFE 530 TX and put this driver to ESXi?

Best regards,
Sebastian

ESXi has a linux driver compatability module, but drivers still need to be compiled for ESXi from modified Linux source code. See an example here for a Marvel driver - http://www.kernelcrash.com/blog/using-a ... 009/08/22/.

Hello,
I have oem.tgz file for realtek. I have to unpack it or put it in folder where I have script to prepar customize cd installation for ESXi?

OK,
I added new driver. This oem.tgz has to be in folder where iso , script are.

BR,

You can use the script here - viewtopic.php?f=10&t=4 to build a custom ISO image.