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
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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.