Intel Pro/100 Support/Driver ?

[rgore01]

Hello,

I built a personnal ESXi server (5.1) at home on my old PC (Asus P5E)

I used ESXi-Customizer to integrate a vib file I found on the net to have my Marvell NIC work correctly when I installed.

I just added an Intel Pro/100 card I had and it seems the server doesn't see it.

When I lspci -v, this is what I get:

00:04:02.0 Ethernet controller Network controller: Intel Corporation EtherExpress PRO/100 S Desktop Adapter

         Class 0200: 8086:1229

I've been searching for the last hour for something to make it work, but no luck.

Does anyone know if it's still possible to have a Intel 100Mbit card work in ESXi 5.1? (I read they removed support for 100Mbit cards in 4.x)

Thanks

Richard

[jrmunday]

Yes, that's unfortunately correct. I checked the HCL and Pro/100 cards are only supported upto ESX 3.5 U5, so you're probably going to have to buy a cheap gigabit adapter that is on the HCL.

[rgore01]

Yes, that is unfortunate.

But, the onboard NIC on my motherboard isn't on the HCL either and I was able to find a driver for it on the net.

I saw this post:

http://kabheap.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/virtualization-adding-intel-pro-100m-nic-support-to-esxi-4-1...

This gentleman was able to make it work in ESXi 4.1. I decided to try it in 5.1 but I don't have a simple.map file in /etc/vmware and I'm not sure 5.1 supports oem.tgz anymore. I was able to download his e100.o driver, I'm just not sure how I can install it in my server.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Richard

[rgore01]

Does someone know if it's possible at all to adapt this driver for 5.1?

Thanks

Richard

[rgore01]

Bumping in case anyone has a solution.

Thanks

[makunpong]

I had the same problem.

I can not use the on board network port. I have a intel pro 100 adapter. After reinstalled, VM can not detect the network adapter.

[skudinov]

Were you able to solve the problem on ESXi 5.5 or 6.0?

lspci -v | grep "Class 0200" -B 1
0000:05:00.0 Ethernet controller Network controller: Intel Corporation EtherExpress PRO/100+ Management Adapter
  Class 0200: 8086:1229

lspci | grep Net

0000:02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network Connection [vmnic0]

0000:05:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation EtherExpress PRO/100+ Management Adapter