M.2 ngff NIC RTL8125BG driver for vsphere V8 (Homelab)

[werner.zeller]

Hello vSphere Community, I would like to install an additional network card in my Mini PC HP DP600 G6 in my Homelab. The new network card works perfectly in Windows. But vsphere V8U3 does not recognise it, not even with the Fling driver. Has anyone already integrated this?
Thank you very much and have a nice weekend!

[bseklecki_BOFH]

Pls share output of cmds:

dmesg
dmidecode –t slot 
dmidecode –t 
lspci -s
lspci -v
lspci -tvv
esxcfg-nics -l
esxcli network nic list
vmkchdev -l
esxcfg-info | less

We are looking to enumerate /dev and/or /sys filesystem paths 

Mercifully, Broadcom isn't able to obfuscate most of the Linux PCI framework, as they depend upon it for PCIe-Passthrough feature.

Also, share the following commands from a modern GNU/Linux (or FreeBSD) Live ISO/USB image on the same hardware?

[werner.zeller]

Hi bseklecki_BOFH, thanks for your help! i have in file all commands, except dmidecode -t slot & dmidecode -t (not working).

If you need anything else, please let me know.

many thanks

werner

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Putty M.2 NIC 2.5 Realtek Prodesk600 G6.txt   3.94 MB 1 version

[werner.zeller]

hi bseklecki_BOFH, Here each command individually

Thanks!

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vmkchdev -l.txt   983 B 1 version

lspci -s--lspci -v--lspci -tvv.txt   4 KB 1 version

esxcfg-info I less.txt   2 KB 1 version

esxcfg-info more less.txt   2 KB 1 version

esxcli network nic list.txt   697 B 1 version

esxcfg-nics -l.txt   1 KB 1 version

dmidecode –t slot-- dmidecode –t.txt   143 B 1 version

dmesg.txt   580 KB 1 version

[sistek]

Hi, attached some of the output you asked from ESXi7 (in case helps somehow).

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ESXi_r8125.7z   241 KB 1 version

[werner.zeller]

Hi, I have the same problem, I need that (driver) for a Test Homelab with vsphere8.

Thanks a lot!!!!

[bseklecki_ge]

In Putty M.2 NIC 2.5 Realtek Prodesk600 G6.txt , you can see that the Intel NIC is assigned vmnic0/vmk0, but the REALTEK driver is dont detecting the REALTEK NIC which is seen on the PCI Bus.

I'm not sure what the FLING driver is (maybe support RealTek USB cards?), but it it is not detecting PCI attached Realtek cards. 

I haven't looked at the other users` debug log output yet.

Is this supposed to work?  

Obviously, Realtek Chipsets have hisortically be atrocious.  Is an Intel or Broadcom mini PCIe VNME available instead?  May costs $10 more.

0000:00:1f.6 Network controller Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (11) I219-LM
         Class 0200: 8086:0d4c



0000:02:00.0 Network controller Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8125 2.5GbE Controller
         Class 0200: 10ec:8125