ralreegorganon

Each time I’ve installed Ubuntu on my current desktop, the network adapters have failed to work ‘out of the box’. The culprit is the 680i chipset that my motherboard uses. There’s a simple fix, however: the forcedeth module needs to be loaded with some special sauce. A quick way to make it work is as follows:

sudo rmmod forcedeth
sudo modprobe forcedeth msi=0 msix=0

You should see the network adapter spring to life. Assuming that works, you can make the fix permanent by adding the following line to /etc/modprobe.d/forcedeth.conf:

options forcedeth msi=0 msix=0

and then running

sudo update-initramfs -u

and rebooting to save the changes.