![]() Songtao was kind enough to provide some of assistance in his spare time to help with this non-sanction effort that I was embarking on. ![]() UPDATE (11/17/16) - New driver has been updated for ESXi 6.5, please find the details here.Īfter reaching out to a few folks internally, I was introduced to Songtao Zheng, a VMware Engineer who works on some of our USB code base. UPDATE (01/22/17)- For details on using a USB-C / Thunderbolt 3 Ethernet Adapter, please see this post here. If you are still on ESXi 5.5/6.0, you can continue using the existing driver but please note there will be no additional development in the existing vmklinux-based driver. UPDATE (02/12/19) - A new VMware Native Driver for USB-based NICs has just been released for ESXi 6.5/6.7, please use this driver going forward. Over the last few weeks I have been investigating to see if it was possible to compile a new version of the driver that would function with newer versions of ESXi such as our 5.5 and 6.0 release. After having re-discovered the thread several years later, I had tried reaching out to the user but concluded that he/she has probably moved on given the lack of forum activity in the recent years. ![]() ![]() This was made possible by using a custom built driver for ESXi that was created over three years ago by a user named Trickstarter. Earlier this month I wrote an article demonstrating a functional USB ethernet adapter for ESXi 5.1.
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