How can I manually load a NIC driver?

Hi all

My old quad NIC card is visible to the kernel as

Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 41) subsystem: Hewlett - Packard Company 10/100Base-TX (PCI) [A5506B]

This is not directly supported by the kernel, but I managed to add the drivers as shown below

How can I manually load the drivers to see what is happening. ESXi does not see the card yet, the kernel interface is not yet there

Thank you

PF

I managed to download the drivers and now I can see them like that

list of vib software # esxcli

Name Version Date seller installation acceptance level

-----------------------------  ------------------------------------  ------  ------------------  ------------

NET-tulip 1.1.15 - 1 DEC CommunitySupported 2015-01-21

ATA-pata-amd 0.3.10 - 3vmw.550.0.0.1331820 VMware VMwareCertified 2015-01-19

ATA-pata-atiixp 0.4.6 - 4vmw.550.0.0.1331820 VMware VMwareCertified 2015-01-19

ATA-pata-cmd64x 0.2.5 - 3vmw.550.0.0.1331820 VMware VMwareCertified 2015-01-19

ATA-pata-hpt3x2n 0.3.4 - 3vmw.550.0.0.1331820 VMware VMwareCertified 2015-01-19

ATA-pata-pdc2027x 1, 0 - 3vmw.550.0.0.1331820 VMware VMwareCertified 2015-01-19

Apparently the driver was not loaded when the server has been restarted

I can do to load the driver manually to see if the NETWORK card?

PS: don't worry about the stability, it is a laboratory

I am struggling to understand the appeal of running a 10 years old 10/100 NIC under the latest version of ESXi.

As a PCI card, the A5506B cannot be used in passthrough mode. Therefore, it will not be a problem.

The driver you are using has been a quick port intended for experimental running ESXi 5.1 under Hyper-V running on Windows 2012.

You can follow the discussion on this topic: Vmware ESXI in Hyper-v (2012 server) network problem

The NETWORK adapter inherited from Hyper-V emulates the DEC 21140 using the 'Tulip' driver I don't remember anyone using it on a physical network card.

The diffs for the linux sources are in the thread, as well as instructions on creating your own version of the driver.

One thing you need to do is to read the ID of PCI of the A5506B (as told by "lspci") in etc/vmware/driver.map.d/tulip.map.

You may be able to get at least one of the ports on the card to operate in this way.

To get them all turned on, you will probably have to play with the driver source.

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