Network adapter (nvidia mcp61- forcedeth) not working

[giancarlo76]

This is an excerpt of lspci -v:

00:07.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8234
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 220
	Memory at dfefd000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	I/O ports at d480 [size=8]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: forcedeth
	Kernel modules: forcedeth

NetworkManager says it's connected, but dhclient actually fails getting IP address. This is the output:

# sudo dhclient eth0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.1
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

SIOCSIFADDR: No buffer space available
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:1f:c6:a7:e0:0a
Sending on   LPF/eth0/00:1f:c6:a7:e0:0a
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
send_packet: Message too long
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
send_packet: Message too long
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
send_packet: Message too long

Any hint to solve this issue?
Thanks a lot.

[giancarlo76]

Other pepole have the same problem, with other cards. Here's a link in italian: http://forum.ubuntu-it.org/index.php?topic=228885.0

Any hint?

[mantelo]

It seems that there is a problem with the new network manager.

To uninstall it, open a terminal and type:

sudo update-rc.d -f NetworkManager remove

Then edit your interfeces file:

sudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces

and add

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

save and reboot

(taken from the italian forum mentioned above).

[giancarlo76]

Thanks for your reply, it actually solved the issue.

[billh1241]

Thank you so much. It worked!!