Hi,

Attached is a backport of the latest forcedeth version to 2.4. It 
includes lots of changes, among them:
- a critical bugfix for nv_open(): ifdown/ifup cycles resulted in an 
incomplete initialization that causes hangs after a few MB network traffic.
- jumbo frame support
- far better ethtool support
- 64-bit dma support
- support for additional nforce versions.

It compiles and boots, but I can't test it properly. Could you give it a 
try?

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    Manfred