Missing NICs on ESX 3.02 setup

[xxhardingm]

I've just install 3.02 on a Dell PowerEdge 2950, and i'm having trouble getting ESX to recognise the additional NICs

The server has

2 x HBAs

2 x onboard NICs

4 x Additional NICs

The HBAs and onboard NICs are fine however i can't see the other NICs via the VI client or using esxcfg-nics -l

Anyone any ideas

[bhadzik]

What are the additional nics?

Are they on the HCL

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_io_guide.pdf

If they are not on the list, they will not work.

[starz]

Is this an Intel Quad NIC? If so, have you tried this patch: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=100190... ?

Try that, or rather install the update (3.0.2 Update 1) which contains this patch as well as alot of other important ones.

[xxhardingm]

Thanks for the replies, still having the same issue though

I've installed the following updates

ESX-1001903

ESX-1001908

ESX-1002427

ESX-1002431

The rest of the updates don't really look like they'd make any difference as they're security updates etc.

The NIC that's not appearing is a Quad port Intel NIC, so i thought 1001908 would've sorted the issue

[Dave_Mishchenko]

could you post the output of lspci | grep "Intel"

[xxhardingm]

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 25c0 (rev 12)

00:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 25e2 (rev 12)

00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 25e3 (rev 12)

00:04.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 25f8 (rev 12)

00:05.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 25e5 (rev 12)

00:06.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 25f9 (rev 12)

00:07.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 25e7 (rev 12)

00:10.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 25f0 (rev 12)

00:10.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 25f0 (rev 12)

00:10.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 25f0 (rev 12)

00:11.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 25f1 (rev 12)

00:13.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 25f3 (rev 12)

00:15.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 25f5 (rev 12)

00:16.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 25f6 (rev 12)

00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2690 (rev 09)

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2688 (rev 09)

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2689 (rev 09)

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 268a (rev 09)

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 268c (rev 09)

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801BA/CA/DB/EB PCI Bridge (rev d9)

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2670 (rev 09)

00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 269e (rev 09)

01:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 0370

01:00.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 0372

06:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 3500 (rev 01)

06:00.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 350c (rev 01)

07:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 3510 (rev 01)

07:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 3514 (rev 01)

0c:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 10d6 (rev 02)

0c:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 10d6 (rev 02)

0d:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 10d6 (rev 02)

0d:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 10d6 (rev 02)

[Dave_Mishchenko · Accepted solution]

Take a look at this patch - . It includes a driver entry for your NIC.

<device id="10D6"> <vmware label="nic"> <desc>Intel(R) Gigabit VT Quad Port Server Adapter</desc> <driver>igb</driver> </vmware> <name>Intel(R) Gigabit VT Quad Port Server Adapter</name> <table file="pcitable" module="ignore" /> <table file="pcitable.Linux" module="igb" prefix=""> <desc>Intel(R) Gigabit VT Quad Port Server Adapter</desc> </table> </device> </vendor> </pcitable>

[xxhardingm]

Cheers that worked a treat

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