Dual port Intel fast ethernet lost after upgrade from ESXi 3.5 to 4.0

[smapjb1]

Hi Guys

Wonder if anyone can help, I have been running ESXi 3.5 for about a year on my home server and in a moment of madness I decided to upgrade.. after re-adding the storage and recovering all my VMs I was relatively happy.. however I have two nic in my box one is an intel pro 1000 and that is working fine.. the other is a dual port Intel Corporation 82559 Fast Ethernet card which delivers cable and adsl to my home LAN..

ESXi can see the card but is not loading the drivers.. any help would be greatly appreciated.

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/var/log # lspci -v

00:00.00 Host bridge Bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM Controller

Class 0600: 8086:29c0

00:01.00 PCI bridge Bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express PCI Express Root Port

Class 0604: 8086:29c1

00:02.00 VGA compatible controller Display controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller

Class 0300: 8086:29c2

00:26.00 USB Controller Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4

Class 0c03: 8086:2937

00:26.01 USB Controller Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5

Class 0c03: 8086:2938

00:26.02 USB Controller Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6

Class 0c03: 8086:2939

00:26.07 USB Controller Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2

Class 0c03: 8086:293c

00:28.00 PCI bridge Bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1

Class 0604: 8086:2940

00:28.03 PCI bridge Bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4

Class 0604: 8086:2946

00:29.00 USB Controller Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1

Class 0c03: 8086:2934

00:29.01 USB Controller Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2

Class 0c03: 8086:2935

00:29.02 USB Controller Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3

Class 0c03: 8086:2936

00:29.07 USB Controller Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1

Class 0c03: 8086:293a

00:30.00 PCI bridge Bridge: Intel Corporation 82801BA/CA/DB/EB PCI Bridge

Class 0604: 8086:244e

00:31.00 ISA bridge Bridge: Intel Corporation 82801IR (ICH9R) LPC Interface Controller

Class 0601: 8086:2916

00:31.02 IDE interface Mass storage controller: Intel Corporation 4 port SATA IDE Controller (ICH9)

Class 0101: 8086:2920

00:31.03 SMBus Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller

Class 0c05: 8086:2930

00:31.05 IDE interface Mass storage controller: Intel Corporation 2 port SATA IDE Controller (ICH9)

Class 0101: 8086:2926

03:00.00 Ethernet controller Network controller: Intel Corporation 82572EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller

Class 0200: 8086:10b9

04:00.00 PCI bridge Bridge: Intel Corporation 21154 PCI-to-PCI Bridge

Class 0604: 8086:b154

05:04.00 Ethernet controller Network controller: Intel Corporation 82559 Fast Ethernet LOM with Alert on LAN*

Class 0200: 8086:1229

05:05.00 Ethernet controller Network controller: Intel Corporation 82559 Fast Ethernet LOM with Alert on LAN*

Class 0200: 8086:1229

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/var/log # lspci -p

Bus:Sl.F Vend:Dvid Subv:Subd ISA/irq/Vec P M Module Name

Spawned bus

00:00.00 8086:29c0 1028:020d V

00:01.00 8086:29c1 0000:0000 3/ 3/0x69 A V

001

00:02.00 8086:29c2 1028:020d 3/ 3/0x69 A V

00:26.00 8086:2937 1028:020d 3/ 3/0x69 A V usb-uhci

00:26.01 8086:2938 1028:020d 5/ 5/0x71 B V usb-uhci

00:26.02 8086:2939 1028:020d 9/ 9/0x79 D V usb-uhci

00:26.07 8086:293c 1028:020d 11/ 11/0x81 C V ehci-hcd

00:28.00 8086:2940 0000:0000 3/ 3/0x89 A V

002

00:28.03 8086:2946 0000:0000 11/ 11/0x79 D V

003

00:29.00 8086:2934 1028:020d 4/ 4/0x91 A V usb-uhci

00:29.01 8086:2935 1028:020d 11/ 11/0x79 B V usb-uhci

00:29.02 8086:2936 1028:020d 9/ 9/0x81 C V usb-uhci

00:29.07 8086:293a 1028:020d 4/ 4/0x91 A V ehci-hcd

00:30.00 8086:244e 0000:0000 V

004

00:31.00 8086:2916 1028:020d V

00:31.02 8086:2920 1028:020d 11/ 11/0x79 A V ata_piix vmhba0

00:31.03 8086:2930 1028:020d 11/ / B V

00:31.05 8086:2926 1028:020d 11/ 11/0x79 A V ata_piix vmhba1

03:00.00 8086:10b9 8086:1083 11/ 11/0xa1 A V e1000e vmnic0

04:00.00 8086:b154 0000:0000 V

005

05:04.00 8086:1229 0e11:b163 5/ 5/0x71 A V

05:05.00 8086:1229 0e11:b163 10/ 10/0x99 A V

[mcwill]

I'm afraid you are probably going to be out of luck, support for the Intel E100 Fast Ethernet adapters were dropped for this release.

I'm fairly certain that if you reinstall 3.5 on the box that you'll find that it was using that E100 driver for this NIC.

Regards,

Iain

[smapjb1]

Thanks for that mcwill, not the answer I was hoping for but I can move forward from here..

While I have your attention can you recommend a PCI 10/100 nic that is supported preferably dual port?

[mcwill]

Your best bet from both a price & compatibility view would be anything E1000 based, yes I realise you don't require gigabit, but I'm note aware of any supported fast ethernet adapters.

[Dave_Mishchenko]

As mentioned the safe bet as an Intel e1000 card like the pro /1000 GT

What ESXi will recognize for NICs / storage controllers - http://www.vm-help.com/esx40i/Hardware_support.php

What was dropped from support - http://www.vm-help.com/esx40i/Hardware_support_removed.php