Broadcom BCM5761

[jrizal]

Hi,

Does anyone know if the Broadcom BCM5761 network card is compatible with VMware ESXi 4.0. I'm looking into getting a Dell Precison T3500 and it comes with an integrated BCM5761 NIC.

Thanks!

[dtracey]

Hi,

This guy had problems with it:

http://www.vmwareforum.org/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1253800872/0

Have a look here for some known working cards:

http://www.vm-help.com/esx/esx3.5/Whiteboxes_SATA_Controllers_for_ESX_3.5_3i.htm#NICs

Dan

[gmbsrt8]

Did you ever get an answer to your question? I am using a T5500 as a host (dual Xeon quad cores) and the on-board nic is the BCM5761. It's a pretty easy mod to make it work. This link talks about the steps: http://communities.vmware.com/message/1497619#1497619

Let me kow if you need any help with this procedure.

gb

[Aaron_Levey1]

I need help please

- using ESXi 4.

I tried WinSCP to copy over the XML you posted

After reboot the tg3.xml file is no longer in the folder (folder is 100% empty) and vCenter only shows that host with an Intel dual NIC, not the broadcom.

Also, there were no files in pciid folder before I put the tg3 file there... should there have been?

thx for the help!

[gmbsrt8]

Download the oem.tgz file from this post: http://www.vm-help.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=2002 and copy the file to /bootbank. Reboot.