Usb To Lan Driver
I had several folks ask me about an updated for ESXi 6.5, similiar to what I had created for. There were some changes that came with ESXi 6.5 and thanks to Songtao, I was able to build a new driver. For those of you who are not familiar with this particular driver, I highly recommend you give this article a read before proceeding any further. If you are interested in Realtek driver for ESXi 6.5, be sure to check out Jose's blog for more info. UPDATE (04/23/18) - For folks who plan to upgrade or install ESXi 6.7, you can continue using the 6.5 driver.
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I've had several folks reach out and share there have not been any issues and upgrades will preserver the USB NIC driver or you can perform a fresh install and follow the steps below. To to use this new driver for ESXi 6.5, there are some additional steps that is required. Below are the instructions on how to install this on an ESXi 6.5 host. Step 0 - Download the or and upload it to your ESXi host.
Step 1 - If you are upgrading from an existing ESXi 5.5 or 6.0 environment, the first thing you will want to do is uninstall the old driver by running the following command (specify the correct name of the driver): esxcli software vib remove -n vghetto-ax88179-esxi60u2 Step 2 - Install the VIB by running the following ESXCLI command to install: esxcli software vib install -v /vghetto-ax88179-esxi65.vib -f Step 3 - Next, you will need to disable the USB native driver to be able to use this driver. To do so, run the following command: esxcli system module set -m=vmkusb -e=FALSE Step 4 - Lastly, for the changes to go into effect, you will need to reboot your ESXi host.
Once your system has rebooted, it should now automatically load the USB Ethernet driver and you should see your USB Ethernet Adapter as shown in the screenshot below. William thanks for the great info and driver support. I did use the earlier version when I built my first NUC 6th Gen and all went well running ver6.0. Now I am planning to upgrade to 6.5 and still new to managing the esx environment. You show above how to uninstall the old driver and install the new for 6.5.
My two questions I have are this, should those steps be done pre or post upgrade to 6.5 from 6.0? And second question which I could probable search for and find elsewhere but I will still ask, I have run upgrades before only from local keyboard,screen and booting from cdrom.
Can you share the steps to do the upgrade to 6.5 from 6.0 remotely if possible or a link to an article post you like or wrote that shows those steps for newbs like myself? Thanks again. Hello i am still facing this issue, i think i am missing something, i am a begginer on esxi. When you say “-f switch” you mean this command: esxcli software vib install -v -f switch this is what i get : esxcli software vib install -v -f InstallationError (‘virtuallyGhettobootbankvghetto-ax88179-esxi656.0.0-1.0.0’, ‘The VIB virtuallyGhettobootbankvghetto-ax88179-esxi656.0.0-1.0.0 does not contain a signature.’) vibs = virtuallyGhettobootbankvghetto-ax88179-esxi656.0.0-1.0.0 Please refer to the log file for more details. Hi I’m trying to load the vghetto-ax88179-esxi65.vib on esxi6.7 and I’m getting the below error when executing this command ‘esxcli software vib install -v /vghetto-ax88179-esxi65.vib -f’ InstallationError (‘virtuallyGhettobootbankvghetto-ax88179-esxi656.0.0-1.0.0’, ‘The VIB virtuallyGhettobootbankvghetto-ax88179-esxi656.0.0-1.0.0 does not contain a signature.’) vibs = virtuallyGhettobootbankvghetto-ax88179-esxi656.0.0-1.0.0 Please refer to the log file for more details. Can you help me please as I’m pulling my hair out.
Great article and fantastic job, and it works fine (intel NUC SkullCanyon, StarTech dual ehernet adapter), except. When rebooting the NUC, everything seems good, except the interface is actually not working (no ping, nothing) I have to either edit/save manually on ESXi administration interface the port group connected to the vswitch with the USB uplink, or in command line by removing/reattaching the vusb nic to the vswitch. Weirdly, it doesn’t work when trying to do the same command line so in local.sh file (even with async delay) when launching command line in local.sh, outcome in log is: 2017-02-01T18:10:36.020Z: netCorrelator 428790423us: vob.net.pg.uplink.transition.up Uplink:vusb0 is up.
Affected portgroup: pgFO. 0 uplinks up And thru portal or command line, it seomhow detect the 1 uplink, and that triggers connectivity event. 2017-02-01T19:15:37.367Z: netCorrelator us: vob.net.pg.uplink.transition.up Uplink:vusb0 is up. Affected portgroup: pgFO. 1 uplinks up 2017-02-01T19:15:39.001Z: netCorrelator us: esx.clear.net.connectivity.restored Network connectivity restored on virtual switch “vswitchFO”, portgroups: “pgFO”.
Physical NIC vusb0 is up Any idea welcome. Thank you so much for your USB drivers.
Hi all, followed the procedure above on my nuc skull canyon, current bios, esxi 6.5 i’ve attached 1x single port Startech and 1x dual port Startech adapter via USB. With lsusb is see the devices, but i dont see them in the vsphere host client nic management page Bus 001 Device 009: ID 0b95:1790 ASIX Electronics Corp. AX88179 Gigabit Ethernet Bus 001 Device 008: ID 0b95:1790 ASIX Electronics Corp. AX88179 Gigabit Ethernet Bus 001 Device 007: ID 2109:8110 Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0b95:1790 ASIX Electronics Corp. AX88179 Gigabit Ethernet anybody any ideas on that? I’ve installed ESXi 6.5 Update 1 (build 5969303) and the same thing is happening after a reboot. Every time I reboot, I have to run the following two commands to re-attach the usb uplink to the vswitch and to set the usb uplink to “unused” in the port group policy for the corresponding port group.
This makes using the dual NIC setup pretty painful. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Esxcli network vswitch standard uplink add -u vusb0 -v vSwitch0 esxcli network vswitch standard portgroup policy failover set -p iSCSI-2 -a vusb0. There is such a mixed bag of experiences here.
I wish I could say I’m one of the success stories like HapiRat and his NUC6, but I have had nothing but problems getting this to work reliably with an NUC6i7KYK and clean installs of ESXi 6.5. I started working with this setup early this year, with an earlier build of ESXi 6.5. The first signs of trouble came when I found that the port groups would sometimes swap their assigned vSwitches with each other upon host reboot. This only happened with the vSwicthes uplinked to the vusb adapters, not the onboard Intel adapter and the management network (thankfully). When this happened I could not remedy it via the web GUI as I got all sorts of errors.
I could only fix it from the CLI, which entailed deleting and recreating port groups in order to get things right. But of course a reboot of the host might mess it all up again. Other times the vSwicthes would just lose the vusb uplinks altogether on host reboot, as others have reported here. Again I could not remedy this with the web GUI and would have to use the CLI to re-add the uplinks. For whatever reason the ESXi web GUI just isn’t the same as performing the same commands from the CLI, which further adds to the frustration. More recently I rebuilt everything with a clean install of ESXi and the latest 6.5 Update 1 in hopes things might be smoother.
So far I haven’t seen any strangeness with port groups moving about, but I now consistently lose the vusb uplinks on host reboot and can only successfully add them back via the CLI. Again, the web GUI is worthless! Worse, sometimes re-adding the uplinks doesn’t allow traffic to pass and the vusb adapters become useless.
Right now the system is in a state where I can’t get it to pass any traffic over the vusb adapters even though all configurations look right. A few reboots and nothing has changed. I truly regret having spent so much time with this ridiculous USB adapter on ESXi. By the way, I have had absolutely no issues with Hyper-V and this USB adapter on the same NUC6 hardware. Insert and done.
I really wish ESXi would play as nicely. Hi William, Thanks for your work with these drivers. It’s much appreciated.
They seem to work very well. I’m wondering if you can comment on one particular issue I’m having with the usb nic after reboots. I’ve installed ESXi 6.5 Update 1 (build 5969303). Every time I reboot, the usb uplink becomes disassociated with the vswitch and I have to run the following two commands to re-attach the usb uplink to the vswitch and to set the usb uplink to “unused” in the port group policy for the corresponding port group. Esxcli network vswitch standard uplink add -u vusb0 -v vSwitch0 esxcli network vswitch standard portgroup policy failover set -p iSCSI-2 -a vusb0.
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Yes, am having no issue. Hello vG, I’m struggling with the installation of USB network driver on my NUC. I did the steps as above. I can see the USB dives lsusb command.
So that’s good. Installed the driver Installation Result Message: Operation finished succesfully. VIBs Installed: virtualGhettobootbankvghetto-ax88179-esxi650.0-1.0.0 So that’s also good. Did the check command esxcli network nic list. There is other nic installed than it was. What did i do wrong.
PS bought this USB network card StarTech USB 3.0 to Dual Port Gigabit Ethernet Adapter NIC with USB Port Best regards, Maurice. For folks who mentioned they’ve had issues where the USB NIC’s configuration and association to vSwitch is not persisting, could you give a bit more background on the version of ESXi, the installation type (on disk or USB)? I personally don’t make use of the USB NIC that frequently, but I had recently re-built my 6.5u1 system a few days ago and installed the USB NIC driver and added it as an “Active” uplink and have been able to reboot several times without any issues. In fact, I’ve even completely removed the pNIC from vSwitch0 all together and as you can see from the output below, only the USB NIC is attached and reboots have been fine. : esxcfg-vswitch -l Switch Name Num Ports Used Ports Configured Ports MTU Uplinks vSwitch0 1536 5 128 1500 vusb0 PortGroup Name VLAN ID Used Ports Uplinks VM Network 0 1 vusb0 Management Network 0 1 vusb0 I’m just wondering if there’s something else going on thats causing the issues? Hi William I’am college student, and I am trying to fresh-install ESXi 6.5 on an samsung np530u4b. The only network adapter is an ASIX ax88179 ( TRENDNET: ) I used the vghetto-ax88179-esxi65.vib and ESXi-Customizer-v2.7.2.exe to generate a new image custom esxi from a imagen: VMware-VMvisor-Installer-201701.x8664.iso During the pre-boot, I ran the following command: jumpstart.disable=vmkusb to disable the vmkusb driver.
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However, later I get the following message: – No compatible network adapter found. Please consult the product’s Hardware Compatibility Guide (HCG) for list of supported adapters.
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Can you help me? I have a StarTech USB 3.0 single port gigabit ethernet lan as well as a USB-C dual port startech hooked up to my skull canyon nuc. The reason for this is that I wanted the dual port to be for lan and wan for pfsense and the single port to be for my tap port.
Inland Usb To Lan Driver
It all install easily and seemed to be working find. However, I’m not sure why.
One of the ports on the dual port USB-C seems to just drop traffic intermittently. Instead of using both ports, I’m just using one now, but it still happens. It is, however, much less frequent. No idea at the moment why. I’m trying to load the vghetto-ax88179-esxi65.vib on esxi6.7 and I’m getting the below error when executing this command ‘esxcli software vib install -v /vghetto-ax88179-esxi65.vib -f’ InstallationError (‘virtuallyGhettobootbankvghetto-ax88179-esxi656.0.0-1.0.0’, ‘The VIB virtuallyGhettobootbankvghetto-ax88179-esxi656.0.0-1.0.0 does not contain a signature.’) vibs = virtuallyGhettobootbankvghetto-ax88179-esxi656.0.0-1.0.0 Please refer to the log file for more details. Can you help me please as I’m pulling my hair out. Arnold — I’ve found the delay (and hence the loop needed in local.sh) is needed to wait for the “esxcli” command to work at all.
The process it talks to (hostd??) takes quite a while to get going. You can sit and wait until just about any valid esxcli command returns 0, there’s no need to do any more than that. And yes, the vswitch memberships and uplinks failover policies all get lost over a reboot. So everything.appears. to work just fine.
The problem the rest of us have been seeing is that, after some random length of time (it can be days or weeks!) the USB NIC will just stop sending or receiving packets. Take the switch ports down (or unplug the network cables), wait a few seconds, then bring them back up again (or plug them in again), and it starts to work again. Most of the time that fix works. But the complete loss of things like iSCSI in the time between when it stopped and when you noticed, can make ESXi very upset to a point it isn’t prepared to recover on its own. At which point you need to power-cycle the host, as it may even refuse to “reboot -f”. Incidentally, I have found the exact same behaviour using either the vGhetto AX88179 driver or the devtty.uk AX88179 driver. They both just stop after a while, same symptoms, same fix/workaround.
Interesting point about the iSCSI vulnerability to these disconnects. With that in mind. Running iSCSI (or any other protocol for VM storage) over the USB based Ethernet nics is at best, risky. I will see if and when I get a disconnect. But, as use jumbo frames @9000 and the AX88179 limits the MTU to 4K, I’m keeping the onboard nic exclusive for vPro (can’t change it) and iSCSI. Management and VMs are using the USB based Ethernet ports.
If I get a disconnect, I can attempt to recover using the vPro based KVM to the DCUI (recover connectivity or perform a clean shutdown). Arnaldo – Thank you very much for sharing your experiences along with some useful tips that can benefit others. Re: Secure Boot – It won’t work, because Secure Boot expects properly signed VIBs and will not boot the host. Lowering the acceptance level won’t change anything Re: USB-C, take a look at if you’ve not already.
I vaguely recall some other folks have tried on the latest Gen8 NUC w/o issues I understand that folks are frustrated with the random disconnect of network connectivity which hasn’t been consistent for anyone, as user “Jules Field” points out, this can be days or weeks. Since this is not something thats officially supported and was put together as a side project, YMMV. The only thing I can potentially offer up is if folks are running into the disconnect, if they can produce a vm-support bundle prior to rebooting, perhaps there’s something in the logs that could indicate where the issue is. It feels like something is “filling up” since its duration-based and for me, it actually only happened once which took almost 1.5months and I’ve not been able to constantly reproduce it. I think you might onto something with “something filling up”. I was intermittently (yet pretty consistently) having this issue when I was using the USB-C startech dual port as part of a pfsense firewall setup.
As my entire home network’s traffic goes through it, that might be the reason that it’s was pretty frequent (anywhere between. William – one of my NUC5 boxes is in the “broken” state right now. But it looks like it’s taken out at least its iSCSI connection. So when I ssh into it and run “vm-support” it hangs and doesn’t respond to Ctrl-C at all. Can I get together the necessary logs and so on without it trying to gather info about the iSCSI filesystems? Would the support bundle still be useful if I try to get all the ports working again by temporarily unplugging and replugging their network cables first,.then. run the “vm-support” command?
Hi, I’ve found a workaround which works in my specific case for the runtime disconnects (although not for the reboot vswitch deassociation). I’m using the startech adapter with your 6.5 driver on a gen6 skull canyon, running esxi 6.5 u1. I have a sophos xg appliance using the USB adapter for its WAN interface, routed through to a netcomm n4fv modem/router – so basically the XG has an untagged port group on the usb’s vswitch with an IP address of 192.168.20.101 and the gateway configured as the router’s IP, 192.168.20.1, and the XG’s IP is configured as the DMZ host.
Configuring the netcomm to manually map the XG’s MAC address to 192.168.20.101 – such that the arp result flag is 0x6 – prevents loss of connectivity during runtime and under load. I’d noticed that whenever the interface went down the netcomm was saying the result flag was ‘incomplete’ / 0x0 and the mac address was undefined (all zeros). Hope this helps. I have the same problem.
I haveDual StarTech USB and the two nuc in esxi 6.7(Baby Canyon) I try everything, fresh esxi install, uninstall and repeat the instalation of the drivers. But the problem persist. All of he nic vmnic0,vusb0 and vusb1 and in the VDS, MTU 1600.Here an example of error, suddenly the vusb1 stop sending/reciving traffic. 2018-07-29T12:03:48.447Z cpu3:2097552)WARNING: LinNet: netdevwatchdog:3688: NETDEV WATCHDOG: vusb1: transmit timed out 2018-07-29T12:03:48.447Z cpu3:2097552)xhcihcd 0000:00:14.0: Stopped on Transfer TRB. Other problem is that both vmnic(vusb0/vusb1) stop sending/reciving traffic and nothing appear in the logs, i have to restart the vmnic. William if you want, i can gather a support log and upload to you for analyze. All, I am not using this configuration, but I’d like to be able to use it in the future.
One idea that might be causing USB NICs to freeze; perhaps the power saving configuration in the BIOS is causing the motherboard to power off the USB port when traffic over the USB NIC has stopped for longer than some defined time. So you might try changing any BIOS setting(s) related to power saving to whatever value will keep USB ports always powered or increase the time to wait before powering down. Just an idea, that I hadn’t seen discussed in this thread. Hopefully, some one with the hardware and experiencing the problem can test this idea.
HTH, PDAlbert. I installed ESXi 6.7 U1 from scratch on a NUC7i7BNH. Changed ESXi acceptance level to community. Tried to install this VIB via GUI and CLI. : esxcli software vib install -v /vmfs/volumes/2TB/vghetto-ax88179-esxi65.vib -f Installation Result Message: Host is not changed.
Reboot Required: false VIBs Installed: VIBs Removed: VIBs Skipped: virtuallyGhettobootbankvghetto-ax88179-esxi656.0.0-1.0.0 Do I need to install 6.5 first and the upgrade to 6.7U1? Not sure where to go from here. Thanks in advance! Hello, I’ve tried just about everything I could find on here and I can’t get this to work.
I upgraded from 6.0u3 to 6.5u2. I’ve tried both drivers for the AX88179 on the Startech adapters.
I’ve rebooted multiple times. The vib successfully installs.
I disable vmkusb successfully. Nothing works. I have experienced the same issue as other people on this thread for 6.7 on a NUC7i7DNHE (connection on Startech adapters drops when a lot of data is passed over them. I ran a speed test from a VM post-install and was able to reproduce the issue immediately). I decided to start from scratch and install 6.5 (update), but I am still seeing the same issue. For those of you that have the adapters working without any problems, what version of 6.5 did you use?
I am wondering if I should try 6.5.0a. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Lastly, William, if you have interest and if there is something I can provide to you to help in identifying and resolving the issue please let me know. I am happy to help.
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Typically, the product ID can be found on the unit itself, but it can also be found on the packaging it came in. On the product itself, it can often be found on the bottom of the unit, near either 'StarTech.com' or the serial number. If the product came in a box, this can often be found near the product photo after the word PART #. It may also be located above the UPC code or on the front of the packaging. If you require assistance finding the product ID, please for assistance.