Tried to boot ESXi 5 on a Lenov W520 that has an Intel i7-2720QM processor and it booted and saw the SATA disk.
However, it was not able to utilize the network chip, Intel 82579LM, with PCI ID of 8086/1502.
After looking up the internet, I found out that in the Linux driver e1000e, the PCI ID of 1502 and 1501 are both supported by that driver.
In ESXi 5, the e1000e driver only lists the ID of 1501 and not 1502.
Is there a way to get around this issue by adding an additional PCI device ID by ourselves?
If so, what are the steps?
If not, can the ID 1502 be added in the next update or driver update so the Lenovo W520 could be used for ESXi 5 testing as it supports up to 16G RAM?