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Old 02-27-2004, 07:15 AM   #1
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I can't get my new Nortel Baystack 21 NIC's to 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.

Last edited by dopper; 02-27-2004 at 07:52 AM.
 
Old 02-29-2004, 08:12 AM   #2
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I'm assuming this hardware doesn't work with linux?
 
  


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