nForce Ethernet controller ?

[Vincent Trouilliez]

I have got a MSI "K7N 420 Pro" motherboard. It has the 'nForce' chipset,
which includes a Ethernet controller.

Has anyone managed to connect to the internet using a built-in nForce
Ethernet controller ???

Mine seems detected properly (lspci, dmesg, gnome's device manager etc),
but, when I run 'pppoeconf', it will detect 'eth0', but will time out
when trying to detect the cable modem ! :o(

If I turn this nForce controller off and replace it with a cheap generic
'8139' PCI card, pppoeconf works like a charm.

So I would love to hear from people who happen to also have an nForce
(one) Ethernet controller....can you connect to your broadband modem
with it ?? :-/

Is it just Warty, does Hoary work any better in this department ??
ISTR that mandrake 9.2 had the same problem, so maybe it's either the
driver that's dodgy, or my motherboard is faulty ?


Vince