nForce Ethernet controller ?

[Vincent Trouilliez]

> I have a Nforce 3 based motherboard

I did make sure I mentionned having a nForce ONE, didn't I... ;-)
SUre, nForce 2 is certainly a completely different design, so nForce 3
certainly has not a transistor in common with my nForce one chip ! ;o)

> I did try the Nvidia driver and forcedeth with no change, it seemed to be
> time related - rarely work after 10 mins of system running regardelss of
> activity.

That's worrying ! :-/

> Have you tried the connection immediately after boot?

Yup. When pppoeconf failed to find the modem, it suggested that having
other pppoe related processes may cause the problem. So I rebooted the
machien in 'recoveryt mode, and as soon as I got the command line, I
started pppoeconf again. Failed one more time...

Vince