![]() ![]() The whole computer is about 7 months old and as per another recent thread it has a fresh install of Windows 7 64bit Pro. I’ve just installed this version of the Broadcom drivers on my ASRock X77 Extreme 4 and all appears to be fine (I actually used the VMware PowerCLI and Image Builder but the overall result is similar).I have the above brand of LAN on a ASROCK Z68 Extreme 4 Mobo. (as compared to the link above which is v3.120h / October 24, 2011). Note these is a newer version of the ESXi packaged Broadcom driver: v3.123b / Apat. So after a day of messing around with different drivers and versions of ESXi, I’m happy to report that you can get it working if you follow the steps below.ġ) Download ESXi 5.0 Update 1, ESXi Customizer and the Broadcom driver (newer version of the Broadcom driver here thanks Simon!)Ģ) Extract ESXi Customizer and the Broadcom driver to a directory of your choosingģ) Run the file called ESXi-Customizer.cmd located in your ESXi Customizer directoryĤ) In the first field, select your ESXi 5.0 Update 1 ISO you downloaded earlierĥ) In the second field, change the file type filter to Offline Bundles (*.zip), browse to the Broadcom driver directory, and select 50.2-offline_bundle-547149.zipĦ) In the third field, select the directory you would like to save the final ISO toħ) Check the Create a (U)EFI-bootable ISO (ESXi 5.0 only) box before clicking Run! to create the new ESXi 5.0 ISOĪfter ESXi Customizer does its thing, you’ll end up with an ISO image of ESXi 5.0 with Update 1, Broadcom driver support and non-broken onboard SATA ports. Rollup 2 does include the Broadcom driver so you can choose to go straight to that if you don’t need onboard SATA support. I was going to use a Intel Gigabit NIC anyway but why not see if there was a way to get the onboard Broadcom BCM57781 NIC working? I don’t plan on using dual NICs but it might be useful in the future, so why not?ĮSXi 5.0 Driver Rollup 2 seems to break support for the onboard SATA ports (at least the ones controlled by the Intel chipset) which is the reason why we’re starting from scratch and injecting our own drivers. Something that was a bit of a bummer when I fired up ESXi 5.0 on the ASRock Z77 Extreme4 was that the onboard NIC didn’t work right away. ![]()
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