Net51-drivers

Name

net51-drivers (Deprecated - see note below!)

Description

Adds the blacklisted ESXi 5.1 NIC drivers back to ESXi 6. The original driver names were

• net-r8168
• net-r8169
• net-sky2
• net-s2io

Also adds additional PCI mappings for the net-sky2 driver. These are also separately available as net-sky2-1.

Please note: This package is deprecated! Please use one (or more) of the following packages instead:

• net55-r8168
• net51-r8169
• net51-sky2

Author

Andreas Peetz (@VFrontDe)

Vendor (Vendor Code)

VFrontDe (VFT)

Current Version

1.1

Supported Devices / PCI IDs

10ec:8168, 10ec:8167, 10ec:8169, 17d5:5831, 17d5:5832, 1148:9000, 1148:9E00, 1186:4001, 1186:4b01, 1186:4b02, 1186:4b03, 11ab:4340, 11ab:4341, 11ab:4342, 11ab:4343, 11ab:4344, 11ab:4345, 11ab:4346, 11ab:4347, 11ab:4350, 11ab:4351, 11ab:4352, 11ab:4353, 11ab:4356, 11ab:4357, 11ab:435a, 11ab:4360, 11ab:4361, 11ab:4363, 11ab:4364, 11ab:4365, 11ab:4366, 11ab:4367, 11ab:4368, 11ab:4369, 11ab:436a, 11ab:436b, 11ab:436c, 11ab:4354, 11ab:4362

Acceptance Level

CommunitySupported

Dependencies and Restrictions

Requires: ESXi 6.x

Replaces: net-r8168, net-r8169, net-s2io, net-sky2, net-sky2-1

(In ESXi 5.0 and 5.1 these drivers are included out-of-the-box, with ESXi 5.5 you can add them directly from the VMware Online Depot. See Additional links.)

Package Properties

Direct Download links

• VIB File of version 1.1
• Offline Bundle of version 1.1