I'm going to bump this to see if someone has a respons to why vmware 5.0 even when the card is supported by the HCL and even though the card worked fine under Linux (for instance).
I have two different Intel network chipsets on this motherboard one has two ports but still registers as one, is this due to the fact I run "OSE" or is it something else. I've tried to reinstall the system now to but to no avail and found one "perhaps" driver but it seems that the VIB in question was not correct.