forcedeth problems on nforce 680i

[rob4141]

Is anyone else having problems getting the ethernet card on a 680 platform to work? I'm running fedora core 6 on an asus p5n32-E sli motherboard. The forcedeth module loads but I can't get an ipaddress via dhcp and if I setup a static address it still doesn't work. If I rmmod the module the system locks up, though I believe it's being auto reloaded (and locks up at that point) because I get message about it not detecting a link on initialization.

uname -a

Linux minas-morgul 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 #1 SMP Fri Nov 10 12:45:28 EST 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

I've attached the dmesg and lspci output.

[rob4141]

I've done some more research and found that booting with the kernel parameter irqpoll will enable the card to get an ipadress however the system becomes extremely unstable and will crash a few minutes after booting.

[rob4141]

For future reference the asus board seems to have the same bug the evga one does as described in this link (you have to search 680 with the i to find it )
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=79917

adding

options forcedeth msi=0 msix=0

to /etc/modprobe.conf on FC6 works for me.