Solve Network Card Not Detected issue for VMWare ESXi 5.5 – DLink 528T and RTL8139DL NICs

Hello everyone, Recently I thought of utilizing a spare system to set up my small Visualization lab at my home. It is a Core2Duo System 3 GHz with 4gig RAM and 1 TB HDD.Huh, the moment I tried to install ESXi 5.5 from the boot disk, the installation halted saying “No compatible network card detected” and bla bla…. It was really a sad moment seeing that on my first hypervisor installation.

Oh by the way, I was using PCI NICs which were:
1. DLink 528T – gigabit NIC
2. RTL8139DL – 10/100 mbps NIC
Now this is what I did to make these two work.

Download the following .vib files (according to your needs):
a. Realtek R8168
b. Realtek R8169
c. Realtek R8139
d. Realtek R8168
e. DLink 528T and other .
Download the ESXi customizer tool : ESXi customizer
Now you can install the above files in any two ways.
Pre install (Using the ESXi customizer tool)
Post install (Using SSH Console)
First Method (Using the ESXi customizer tool):