Atheros AR8171 / QCA8171 NIC driver ?

[pp75]

Hi everyone,

So i have a ASRock B85M-ITX mobo with this NIC but I've been unable to make the alx driver work on ESXi 5.x

The ioremap call fails and if I just try without remapping the driver loading fails as well

I was wondering if anyone had had luck with this ?

My kernel driver development skills are limited and i don't know why there should be such a problem with the VMKernel ?

I compared my source with sky2 (working vmkdriver) and alx (working linux kernel 3.13) and the source code up to the ioremap call.

They are very similar so i don't see why the error is here...

Anyone there experienced with this kind of dev ?

Anyone with a working driver ?

Any helps appreciated.

Pierre

PS 1 : i know it's not on the HCL but hey, this is a community question not a suport request 😉

PS 2 : adding a NIC is not an option (albeit the favourite reply here) as i have a single PCIe port which is used by a 8x SATA card

[lennyburns]

Have you resolved this yet?

I am also desperate to build a server on a laptop i bought with RAID and 32GB RAM.  It has the AR8171 NIC and it isn't being recognized.

[pp75]

yes and no

NO  it does not work on VMWare and with the choice to go "SDK for partners" by VMware and drop the Linux compatibility library, i decided to stop wasting my time

YES : it works fine on Xen 🙂  (but not on XenServer which is comparable with ESXi for the driver part)