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Abe819
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Issue with one of the NIC card port

I have an updates ESXi 4.1 running on IBM 3550, for some reason, one of the port, of the dual ports NIC I have, disappeared and dont see it in the GUI any more, but I see it when I do lspci:

~ # lspci |grep Broad
000:004:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T [vmnic0]
000:006:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T [vmnic1]
But when I do esxcfg-nics -l and I dont see it:

~ # esxcfg-nics -l

Name    PCI           Driver      Link Speed     Duplex MAC Address       MTU    Description

vmnic0  0000:04:00.00 bnx2        Up   1000Mbps  Full   00:14:5e:fc:06:7c 1500   Broadcom Corporation Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T

I tried the following to enable it but I got an error:

~ # vmkchdev -v 000:006:00.0

vmkchdev failed with 0xbad0004

any idea?

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cho9045
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Try

#vmkchdev -l

to list device state

or

#vmkchdev -L

to list device state with details.

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Abe819
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Here is what I got:

~ # vmkchdev -l |grep nic
000:004:00.0 14e4:164c 1014:0342 vmkernel vmnic0
000:006:00.0 14e4:164c 1014:0342 passthru vmnic1
~ # vmkchdev -L |grep nic
000:004:00.0 14e4:164c 1014:0342 vmkernel vmnic0
vmnic0
000:006:00.0 14e4:164c 1014:0342 passthru vmnic1
vmnic1
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HitechCityHyd
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try to update nertwork drivers then it would works 

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Abe819
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Do you know how? I just updated the ESXi but that didn't help

Thanks for replying

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cho9045
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Think you're having known issue.

Please refer below discusson history.

http://communities.vmware.com/message/1861400

Hope this could help of you.

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Abe819
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I was looking at it, that doesnt help me, the options are not showing in the GUI

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HitechCityHyd
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Contact with your hardware vendor and they will give you the updated versions for the ESXi 4.1 running on IBM 3550

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HitechCityHyd
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did you solve the issue ?

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Abe819
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No,not yet

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