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Intel® Ethernet Connection I217-V, e1000e driver.The ASRock Z87 Extreme6 board, that will be used in this example, have the following two controllers: – e1000-x.x.x.tar.gz driver supports all Intel® 8254x-based PCI and PCI-X Gigabit Network Adapters/Connections.įurthermore, the drivers for ESXi needs to be recompiled from the above versions. – igb-x.x.x.tar.gz driver supports all Intel® 82575/6-, 82580-, I350-, or I210/1-based Gigabit Network Adapters/Connections. The latest version and earlier versions of this driver are available from SourceForge. Here is an excerpt from Intel’s website:Į1000e.x.x.x.tar.gz is designed to work with the Intel® 8 Gigabit Ethernet PHY, 8/4/7/8/9, 82583 Gigabit Ethernet Controller, and I217/I218 controllers under Linux*. Some desktop controllers use the igb driver though. from what I understand, the igb drivers are mostly for server NICs and the e1000 drivers for desktop NICs.
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Intel seems to have two lines of drivers for Linux, igb and e1000. When it comes to what driver to include I have to be honest to report that I have not been able to fully figure it out. To be able to perform the driver inclusion the following tools are needed: Adding or updating a driver directly in the ESXi ISO solves this issue.
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However, to install ESXi from the beginning requires at least one supported network controller. There are ways to add support for a NIC after ESXi has been installed. Most of the motherboards I have presented here on this blog ( ASRock Z87 Extreme6, ASRock Z77 Pro4-M, Intel DQ77KB, Intel DQ77MK) have had unsupported network controllers. Using new hardware with not-yet supported or unsupported drivers is often required when using consumer grade and/or desktop components. Modifying ESXi ISO images to include network drivers