Comment thread started by phil.Udel on USB Network Native Driver for ESXi

HI, I have the New NUC 7i Gen8 and a tp-link UE300.
Drivers installed but I don't see the nic. :(
Here is my info:
[root@localhost:/dev] vmware -vl
VMware ESXi 6.7.0 build-10302608
VMware ESXi 6.7.0 Update 1

[root@localhost:/dev] chkconfig usbarbitrator --list
usbarbitrator

[root@localhost:/dev] lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 413c:301a Dell Computer Corp.
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 2357:0601
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 13fe:6300 Kingston Technology Company Inc.
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 413c:2101 Dell Computer Corp. SmartCard Reader Keyboard
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0e0f:8003 VMware, Inc.

[root@localhost:/dev] localcli system module list | grep usb
vmkusb_nic_fling true true

[root@localhost:/dev] esxcli network nic list
Name PCI Device Driver Admin Status Link Status Speed Duplex MAC Address MTU Description
------ ------------ ------ ------------ ----------- ----- ------ ----------------- ---- ------------------------------------------------
vmnic0 0000:00:1f.6 ne1000 Up Up 1000 Full 94:c6:91:a9:fb:f4 1500 Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (6) I219-V

2019-03-30T03:05:55.277Z cpu0:2097529)Activating Jumpstart plugin vmklinux.
2019-03-30T03:05:55.277Z cpu0:2097529)Jumpstart plugin vmklinux activated.
2019-03-30T03:05:55.277Z cpu0:2097529)Activating Jumpstart plugin vmkdevmgr.
2019-03-30T03:05:55.345Z cpu0:2097564)PCI: 1254: 0000:00:1f.6 named 'vmnic0' (was '')
2019-03-30T03:05:55.348Z cpu0:2097564)PCI: 1254: 0000:00:17.0 named 'vmhba0' (was '')
2019-03-30T03:05:55.352Z cpu0:2097564)PCI: 1254: 0000:6d:00.0 named 'vmhba1' (was '')
2019-03-30T03:05:55.400Z cpu0:2097565)Loading module vmkusb_nic_fling ...
2019-03-30T03:05:55.402Z cpu0:2097565)Elf: 2101: module vmkusb_nic_fling has license VMware
2019-03-30T03:05:55.410Z cpu0:2097565)Device: 192: Registered driver 'vmkusb_nic_fling' from 17
2019-03-30T03:05:55.410Z cpu0:2097565)Mod: 4962: Initialization of vmkusb_nic_fling succeeded with module ID 17.
2019-03-30T03:05:55.410Z cpu0:2097565)vmkusb_nic_fling loaded successfully.

Can you help?
Thanks for all you do.

I see the issue. the new TP-link have new Vendor and Product codes.
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 3.00
bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level)
bDeviceSubClass 0
bDeviceProtocol 0
bMaxPacketSize0 9
idVendor 0x2357
idProduct 0x0601
bcdDevice 30.00
iManufacturer 1 TP-LINK
iProduct 2 USB 10/100/1000 LAN
iSerial 6 000001000000

I would love to help keep these up to date with the newest codes.
How Can I help?

This might explain why I'm having so much trouble, I picked up the UE300 only 3 or 4 weeks ago and all the tutorials explaining how to do this have failed for me.

I wonder who can fix this?

[root@localhost:~] lsusb -v

Bus 001 Device 005: ID 2357:0601 TP-Link
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 3.00
bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level)
bDeviceSubClass 0
bDeviceProtocol 0
bMaxPacketSize0 9
idVendor 0x2357 TP-Link
idProduct 0x0601
bcdDevice 30.00
iManufacturer 1 TP-LINK
iProduct 2 USB 10/100/1000 LAN
iSerial 6 000001000000
bNumConfigurations 2
Configuration Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 2
wTotalLength 57
bNumInterfaces 1
bConfigurationValue 1
iConfiguration 0
bmAttributes 0xa0
(Bus Powered)
Remote Wakeup
MaxPower 256mA
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 0
bAlternateSetting 0
bNumEndpoints 3
bInterfaceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class
bInterfaceSubClass 255 Vendor Specific Subclass
bInterfaceProtocol 0
iInterface 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN
bmAttributes 2
Transfer Type Bulk
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0400 1x 1024 bytes
bInterval 0
bMaxBurst 3
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN
bmAttributes 2
Transfer Type Bulk
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0400 1x 1024 bytes
bInterval 0
bMaxBurst 3
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x02 EP 2 OUT
bmAttributes 2
Transfer Type Bulk
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0400 1x 1024 bytes
bInterval 0
bMaxBurst 3
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x83 EP 3 IN
bmAttributes 3
Transfer Type Interrupt
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0002 1x 2 bytes
bInterval 8
bMaxBurst 0
Configuration Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 2
wTotalLength 98
bNumInterfaces 2
bConfigurationValue 2
iConfiguration 0
bmAttributes 0xa0
(Bus Powered)
Remote Wakeup
MaxPower 256mA
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 0
bAlternateSetting 0
bNumEndpoints 1
bInterfaceClass 2 Communications
bInterfaceSubClass 6 Ethernet Networking
bInterfaceProtocol 0
iInterface 5 CDC Communications Control
CDC Header:
bcdCDC 1.10
CDC Union:
bMasterInterface 0
bSlaveInterface 1
CDC Ethernet:
iMacAddress 3 503EAAD14472
bmEthernetStatistics 0x00000000
wMaxSegmentSize 1514
wNumberMCFilters 0x0000
bNumberPowerFilters 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x83 EP 3 IN
bmAttributes 3
Transfer Type Interrupt
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0010 1x 16 bytes
bInterval 8
bMaxBurst 0
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 1
bAlternateSetting 0
bNumEndpoints 0
bInterfaceClass 10 CDC Data
bInterfaceSubClass 0 Unused
bInterfaceProtocol 0
iInterface 0
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 1
bAlternateSetting 1
bNumEndpoints 2
bInterfaceClass 10 CDC Data
bInterfaceSubClass 0 Unused
bInterfaceProtocol 0
iInterface 4 Ethernet Data
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN
bmAttributes 2
Transfer Type Bulk
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0400 1x 1024 bytes
bInterval 0
bMaxBurst 3
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x02 EP 2 OUT
bmAttributes 2
Transfer Type Bulk
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0400 1x 1024 bytes
bInterval 0
bMaxBurst 3
Binary Object Store Descriptor:
bLength 5
bDescriptorType 15
wTotalLength 22
bNumDeviceCaps 2
USB 2.0 Extension Device Capability:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 16
bDevCapabilityType 2
bmAttributes 0x00000002
Link Power Management (LPM) Supported
SuperSpeed USB Device Capability:
bLength 10
bDescriptorType 16
bDevCapabilityType 3
bmAttributes 0x02
Latency Tolerance Messages (LTM) Supported
wSpeedsSupported 0x000e
Device can operate at Full Speed (12Mbps)
Device can operate at High Speed (480Mbps)
Device can operate at SuperSpeed (5Gbps)
bFunctionalitySupport 2
Lowest fully-functional device speed is High Speed (480Mbps)
bU1DevExitLat 10 micro seconds
bU2DevExitLat 2047 micro seconds
Device Status: 0x0000
(Bus Powered)