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Beelzebarb
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Realtek RTL-8100/8101L/8139 Driver for VMWare ESXi (Says no NIC cards were found during install)

Hello, all, i've tried for the last few days to find a driver i can put into the vmware esxi i want to use, but no matter what i can't find a driver that will work, realtek's website is useless in this effort and i'm at a loss as to what to do, getting a new NIC card is not an option also.

If anyone knows where i can find the .vib file for my NIC or has another suggestion, please any help would be appreciated.

Also i do have a motherboard NIC but it is dead and has not worked in a very long time (thus why i have the card)

- Thanks in advance

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vuzzini
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Hello Beelzebarb,

Welcome to VMware community.

Realtek RTL-81xx series network cards are not supported with VMware ESXi as per VMware HCL (VMware Compatibility Guide: I/O Device Search). The drivers for these cards will not be available from VMware as the network card is not supported.

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meda1983
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