The motherboard has two Intel® (ESB2/Gilgal) 82563EB Dual-port Gigabit Ethernet Controllers and ESXi 5 seems to find them OK but they are not operational. I have 2 identical machines failing the same way, Linux works fine with the LAN ports.
I found where I may need to upgrade my LAN drivers but procedure required SSH command line which I can not use because I can not SSH into the machine. Is there a way to get to the command line without being on the network?
https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/details?productId=284&downloadGroup=DT-ESXI5X-INTEL-IGB-42163