NIC problem

Hello,

I newly installed blade 460c with ESXi 4.1 U2 . this server is having 4 port nic but when I try  to make vmnic2,3,4,5  up it gives me a following error.

vmnic0 and vmnic1 are working fine.

~ # esxcli network nic up -n vmnic2

Errors:

Unknown Object nic in namespace network

~ #

here is the overview of these nics

~ # esxcfg-nics -l

Name    PCI           Driver      Link Speed     Duplex MAC Address       MTU    Description

vmnic0  0000:02:00.00 be2net      Up   1000Mbps  Full   78:e3:b5:1d:c2:80 1500   ServerEngines Corporation NC553i 10Gb 2-port FlexFabric Converged Network Adapter

vmnic1  0000:02:00.01 be2net      Up   1000Mbps  Full   78:e3:b5:1d:c2:84 1500   ServerEngines Corporation NC553i 10Gb 2-port FlexFabric Converged Network Adapter

vmnic2  0000:0b:00.00 e1000e      Down 0Mbps     Half   00:25:b3:b1:10:00 1500   Intel Corporation NC364m Quad Port 1GbE BL-c Adapter

vmnic3  0000:0b:00.01 e1000e      Down 0Mbps     Half   00:25:b3:b1:10:01 1500   Intel Corporation NC364m Quad Port 1GbE BL-c Adapter

vmnic4  0000:0c:00.00 e1000e      Down 0Mbps     Half   00:25:b3:b1:10:02 1500   Intel Corporation NC364m Quad Port 1GbE BL-c Adapter

vmnic5  0000:0c:00.01 e1000e      Down 0Mbps     Half   00:25:b3:b1:10:03 1500   Intel Corporation NC364m Quad Port 1GbE BL-c Adapter

~ # esxcli network nic up -n vmnic2

Errors:

Unknown Object nic in namespace network