BUG ? : ip length disagree with bytes received

During DHCP configuration of at76c505a adapter the system prints the
following on the console:

"ip length 328 disagrees with bytes received 324"

The interface is configured in Ad-Hoc mode. I tried static
configuration and the card cannot even ping the gateway. By running
ethereal I noticed that the card is successfully sending ARP requests
to get the gateway's IP and the gateway is responding to those
requests as well. So this could probably mean that there really is an
inconsistency between IP length and # of bytes received.

I appreciate any help I can get.

Jesus Arango