D-Link DGE-528T 1GB Network Card on ESXi4.1

[cyber7]

Hi Guys

I read all over the place (prior to ESXi4) that this network card is not supported. That said, I have plugged into my machine one of these cards and doing a "lspci" get the following information:

000:008:04.0 Network controller: D-Link System Inc DGE-528T Gigabit Ethernet Adapter

the "lspci -n" command also displays the following information:

000:008:04.0 Class 0200: 1186:4300

I also had a look at the /etc/vmware/pci.ids file and can find an entry in it for this card:

4300 DGE-528T Gigabit Ethernet Adapter

This tells me that the network controlled is active, working and identiefied 100%.

Questions:

1. Why can I not find this in my ESXi Console to use as a device?

2. Why would all the info be on the OS, but not made available within the EXSi environment?

Kind regards

cyber7

[cyber7]

To get through the mess I have created a nice to follow blog:

D-Link 528T on ESXi 5/5.1 procedure and driver. | cyber7

Thank you to everybody who did the investigation and for the time and afford on this.  The drivers are working 100% in ESXi 5/5.1 and  the procedure is easier to follow than anything.

cyber7 - AKA Aubrey Kloppers