Hello everyone!
This is my first post, so i guess i salute you community!
This is the problem:
I've been trying to make ESXi 5.0 and 5.1 work on an Alienware M14xR2 for about three weeks already without any success in the NIC drivers.
Yes, this NIC is not listed in the HCL, yet i found some drivers in some websites (like http://www.vm-help.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=3494&start=20) where people claim that this driver works by adding the VIB to the ESXi Installation ISO.
Curious thing here, is that it DOES work, but only for a matter of 40 seconds, then i lose all network communications with the ESXi (including pinging), and in the console i see this error: "tx/rx overflow (status = 0x8)".
It becomes a loop of death, unless i unplug the cable and plug it back in, which gives me back 40 seconds in network life (yipee!) but then it dies again.
Any thoughts on FTW might this be?
Cheers <3