nic cards become incompatible

[RandomHobo]

version: esxi 6x

hardware: HP Proliant dl360

I enabled passthru on my nic cards from inside the remote management console and rebooted, now the vmware host reports that there are "no compatible network cards available" and I have no access to the mgt console, or the vmware guests. 

I went into the configuration menu directly on the host and do not see any options to reverse this. There was a "reset network settings" option, which I did, but that does not seem to do anything.  

How can I get back in the management console? or how can I disable passthru to make the cards compatible again? 

[rutgerblommah]

On the ESXi host open /etc/vmware/esx.conf (with vi) and find the line ending with owner = "passthru". Change it to owner = "vmkernel". Reboot the ESXi host.

From KB 1010789:

For example

Change from: /device/000:02.0/owner = "passthru"

Change to:  /device/000:02.0/owner = "vmkernel"