![]() This effort could not have been possible without Songtao and I just want to say thank you very much for all of your help and contributions. Today, I am please to announce that we now have a functional USB ethernet adapter driver based on the ASIX AX88179 that works for both ESXi 5.5 and 6.0. 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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