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Updates to USB Network & NVMe Community Driver for ESXi 7.0 Update 3

11.11.2021 by William Lam // 16 Comments

Happy Thursday! I know many of you have been asking about the status and support for ESXi 7.0 Update 3 and the popular USB Network Native Driver for ESXi. It has taken a bit longer as Songtao (the Engineer behind the Fling) has also been extremely busy and was also recently on PTO. Although I know this is something folks use extensively, I do also want to remind everyone that this is provided as a Fling, which means it is developed and supported as time permits. I will certainly do my best to help get new releases out aligning with ESXi updates and as a reminder, a new version of the USB Fling will ALWAYS be required for major releases of ESXi, which also includes update releases.

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Categories // ESXi, Home Lab Tags // ESXi 7.0 Update 3, Fling, NVMe, usb ethernet adapter, usb network adapter

Community Networking Driver for ESXi Fling v1.2.2

10.29.2021 by William Lam // 12 Comments

The Community Networking Driver for ESXi Fling v1.2.2 has just been released and is a minor update which enables a number of new Intel I220/I221/I225/I226 devices:

  • 8086:0d9f Ethernet Controller I225-IT(2)
  • 8086:15f8 Ethernet Controller I225-I
  • 8086:3100 Ethernet Controller I225-K
  • 8086:3101 Ethernet Controller I225-K(2)
  • 8086:5502 Ethernet Controller I225-LMvP(2)
  • 8086:5504 Ethernet Controller I226-K
  • 8086:125b Ethernet Controller I226-LM
  • 8086:125c Ethernet Controller I226-V
  • 8086:125d Ethernet Controller I226-IT
  • 8086:15f7 Ethernet Controller I220-V
  • 8086:125e Ethernet Controller I221-V

Categories // ESXi Tags // Fling, Intel

Community Networking Driver for ESXi Fling v1.2

05.19.2021 by William Lam // Leave a Comment

The Community Networking Driver for ESXi Fling v1.2 has just been released and adds the following new capabilities:

  • Support for Jumbo Frames (MTU up to 9000)
  • Support for Wake-on-LAN (WOL) for Intel i225 NIC

Categories // ESXi Tags // Fling

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