LinuxQuestions.org - My Nortel Baystack 21 NIC's don't work with linux

I have 3 new NIC's, they were manufactured 01/28/2000 so I figured drivers would be available for them but I can't get them to work under linux. They work great in windows with the drivers that came with it however.

In windows they show up as Nortel Baystack 21 10/100 PCI Ethernet Adapter in Network Neighborhood and it shows up under winipcfg as NDIS 5.0 driver.

I'm not as saavy with setting up hardware in linux as I am with windows but here's all the information I could drum up:

contents of /proc/pci

Code:

Bus 0, Device 11, function 0:

Ethernet controller: PCI device 126c:1211 (Northern Telecom) (rev 16). 

IRQ 11.

Master Capable. Latency=64 Min Gnt=32 Lat=64

I/O at 0xec00 [0xecff]

Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe5004000 [0xe50040ff]

contents of /proc/iomem

Code:

e5004000-e50040ff : PCI device 126c:1211 (Northern Telecom)

/sbin/lspci output:

Code:

00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Northern Telecom: Unknown device 1211 (rev 10)

dmesg output:

Code:

8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26

PCI Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0c.0

PCI Sharing IRQ with 00:08.0

drivert: allocating divert_blk for eth0

eth0 RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xe88a4000, 00:50ba:84:f4:04, IRQ 10

eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139B'

eth0: Setting half-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 0000

Net4: AppleTalk 0.18a for Linux NET4.0

When I try getting info on my static ip address and network adapter with ifconfig

Code:

# ifconfig eth0



Link encap: Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BA:84:F4:04

inet addr: 192.168.2.13 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

EtherTalk Phase 2 addr:65280/19

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU 1500 Metric:1

RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:145 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0

RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:24142 (23.5 Kb)

When I try pinging the gateway machine. (it worked in windows before I formatted and installed linux).

Code:

# ping 192.168.2.2

PING 192.168.2.2 (192.168.2.2) from 192.168.2.13: 56(84) bytes of data.

From 192.168.2.13 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable

From 192.168.2.13 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable

From 192.168.2.13 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable

From 192.168.2.13 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable

From 192.168.2.13 icmp_seq=5 Destination Host Unreachable

From 192.168.2.13 icmp_seq=6 Destination Host Unreachable



--- 192.168.2.2 ping statistics ---

7 packets transmitted, 0 received, +6 errors, 100% loss, time 6026ms, pipe 3

Here's the files that come on the driver CD

Code:

  Length    Date  Time    Name

 --------    ----  ----    ----

    8721  04-23-99 11:27  NT_9X/B21.HLP

    18960  04-23-99 11:00  NT_9X/B21ND310.SYS

    19488  04-23-99 11:01  NT_9X/B21ND410.SYS

    26204  04-23-99 15:56  NT_9X/B21ND510.SYS

    6000  04-23-99 19:03  NT_9X/B21NDI.DLL

    7352  07-15-99 22:31  NT_9X/NETB21ND.CAT

        0  01-04-01 09:32  NT_9X/

        0  01-04-01 09:32  MSLANMAN.DOS/DRIVERS/

        0  01-04-01 09:32  MSLANMAN.DOS/DRIVERS/NIF/

      207  09-07-99 09:43  MSLANMAN.DOS/DRIVERS/NIF/B21ND210.NIF

        0  01-04-01 09:32  MSLANMAN.DOS/DRIVERS/NORTEL/

        0  01-04-01 09:32  MSLANMAN.DOS/DRIVERS/NORTEL/B21/

    53539  04-22-99 15:52  MSLANMAN.DOS/DRIVERS/NORTEL/B21/B21ND210.DOS

      108  05-12-99 17:51  MSLANMAN.DOS/DRIVERS/NORTEL/B21/PROTOCOL.INI

        0  01-04-01 09:32  MSLANMAN.DOS/

        0  01-04-01 09:32  MSLANMAN.OS2/DRIVERS/

        0  01-04-01 09:32  MSLANMAN.OS2/DRIVERS/NIF/

      207  05-12-99 17:26  MSLANMAN.OS2/DRIVERS/NIF/B21ND210.NIF

        0  01-04-01 09:32  MSLANMAN.OS2/DRIVERS/NORTEL/

        0  01-04-01 09:32  MSLANMAN.OS2/DRIVERS/NORTEL/B21/

    37219  04-22-99 19:48  MSLANMAN.OS2/DRIVERS/NORTEL/B21/B21ND210.OS2

      108  09-07-99 09:43  MSLANMAN.OS2/DRIVERS/NORTEL/B21/PROTOCOL.INI

        0  01-04-01 09:32  MSLANMAN.OS2/

    1959  06-11-99 17:41  NDIS/BANYAN.TXT

        0  01-04-01 09:32  NDIS/DOS/

    53709  04-22-99 15:12  NDIS/DOS/B21ND210.DOS

    1818  06-11-99 11:36  NDIS/DOS/B21ND210.NIF

      599  05-12-99 11:16  NDIS/DOS/OEMSETUP.INF

      76  05-12-99 17:54  NDIS/DOS/PROTOCOL.INI

    7738  06-11-99 16:35  NDIS/LANMAN.TXT

    12846  06-11-99 16:49  NDIS/LANSVR.TXT

    3749  06-11-99 16:38  NDIS/LANTASTI.TXT

    2793  06-11-99 16:39  NDIS/NDIS.TXT

        0  01-04-01 09:32  NDIS/OS2/

    1806  07-08-99 11:19  NDIS/OS2/B21ND210.NIF

    37219  04-22-99 19:48  NDIS/OS2/B21ND210.OS2

      105  05-12-99 17:58  NDIS/OS2/PROTOCOL.INI

    4586  06-11-99 17:41  NDIS/PATHWORK.TXT

    5650  06-11-99 16:41  NDIS/PCNFS.TXT

    2407  06-11-99 16:30  NDIS/WFW.TXT

        0  01-04-01 09:32  NDIS/

        0  01-04-01 09:32  NETWARE/DOSODI/

    55168  04-27-99 12:20  NETWARE/DOSODI/B21ODI10.COM

      682  05-12-99 17:31  NETWARE/DOSODI/B21ODI10.INS

    2561  06-11-99 17:42  NETWARE/DOSODI/CLIENT.TXT

    1988  05-12-99 17:29  NETWARE/DOSODI/NET.CFG

        0  01-04-01 09:32  NETWARE/OS2ODI/

    78960  05-12-99 15:00  NETWARE/OS2ODI/B21ODI10.SYS

      361  05-12-99 17:28  NETWARE/OS2ODI/NET.CFG

        0  01-04-01 09:32  NETWARE/SERVER/

        0  01-04-01 09:32  NETWARE/SERVER/3.12/

    69024  09-12-99 17:22  NETWARE/SERVER/3.12/MSM31X.NLM

    38066  10-17-97 10:02  NETWARE/SERVER/3.12/NBI31X.NLM

        0  01-04-01 09:32  NETWARE/SERVER/4.X/

    76997  12-02-97 16:05  NETWARE/SERVER/4.X/MSM.NLM

    56386  08-12-99 20:54  NETWARE/SERVER/B21LAN10.LAN

    5297  09-05-99 13:11  NETWARE/SERVER/B21LAN10.LDI

    13054  12-08-97 15:20  NETWARE/SERVER/ETHERTSM.NLM

    8188  06-11-99 17:44  NETWARE/SERVER/SERVER.TXT

        0  01-04-01 09:32  NETWARE/

    7994  05-13-99 20:12  LANDRV32/B21LAN10.INF

    56386  08-12-99 20:54  LANDRV32/B21LAN10.LAN

    5297  09-05-99 13:11  LANDRV32/B21LAN10.LDI

    12358  09-07-99 12:58  LANDRV32/CLIENT32.TXT

    50378  05-12-99 17:15  LANDRV32/OEMSETNT.INF

        0  01-04-01 09:32  LANDRV32/

    61168  04-27-99 08:13  PKTDRV/B21PKT10.COM

    12735  03-01-92 13:00  PKTDRV/COPYING

    3605  05-12-99 17:49  PKTDRV/PACKET.TXT

        0  01-04-01 09:32  PKTDRV/

        0  01-04-01 09:32  SCO/3.X/

    41185  07-08-99 11:43  SCO/3.X/DRIVER.O

      110  05-13-99 13:40  SCO/3.X/INFO

    20565  10-26-97 21:17  SCO/3.X/INIT

    1224  05-13-99 13:39  SCO/3.X/INSTALL

      77  05-09-99 23:29  SCO/3.X/MASTER

      31  05-09-99 23:29  SCO/3.X/NODE

    18438  05-09-99 23:29  SCO/3.X/RECONF

    8548  05-09-99 23:29  SCO/3.X/REMOVE

    1138  10-26-97 21:18  SCO/3.X/SPACE.C

      76  10-26-97 21:18  SCO/3.X/SYSTEM

        0  01-04-01 09:32  SCO/5.X/

    30720  07-08-99 10:00  SCO/5.X/VOL.000

    6093  06-11-99 18:09  SCO/SCOUNIX.TXT

        0  01-04-01 09:32  SCO/

    86674  05-12-99 12:04  SETUP/B21SET10.EXE

    19463  06-11-99 17:48  SETUP/B21SET10.TXT

        0  01-04-01 09:32  SETUP/

    53539  04-22-99 15:52  WFW311/B21ND210.DOS

    30302  08-05-99 19:32  WFW311/B21ND310.386

    55168  04-27-99 12:20  WFW311/B21ODI10.COM

    1990  04-27-99 12:21  WFW311/NET.CFG

      754  08-05-99 19:11  WFW311/OEMSETUP.INF

    5728  06-11-99 17:50  WFW311/WFW311.TXT

        0  01-04-01 09:32  WFW311/

    8255  07-15-99 22:31  NETB21ND.INF

    45870  07-15-99 22:31  OEMSETNT.INF

    45901  07-24-99 14:10  OEMSETUP.INF

    2508  06-11-99 15:59  README.TXT

    4111  09-05-99 13:12  RELEASE.TXT

    1265  05-13-99 12:01  UNATTEND.TXT

    6975  06-11-99 17:54  WIN9X.TXT

    10336  07-27-99 21:54  WINNT.TXT

 --------                  -------

  1438870                  103 files

Apparently it's a discontinued product

Here's some info on the NIC's

This link lists the Nortel BayStack 21 under the RealTek 8129/8139-based adapters

I found a few other posts with people having problems getting it to work under linux. I am running SME 6.0 Server as my linux distro which is based on redhat 7.3. The linux kernel is version 2.4.20-18.7. I tried every single Network Adapter Driver it comes packaged with and the only one that I got a response from was the one I mentioned above (8139too Realtek)

Another thing I should mention is the chip on it says MPX EN5038. Apparently this is the same as the realtek chipset mentioned above. Any help is appreciated.