Comment 43 for bug 1269883

I just installed generated deb files generated from 3.16.2 tarball from https://www.kernel.org/ and the issue seems to have disappeared. Usually the system crashed after minutes of network connection or after seconds under load and now it's running for half an hour with full load up or down stream.

I guess, it might be related to mainline kernel images. The size for `ax88179_178a.ko` is 36 KB in Ubuntu mailine kernels and 28 KB in build from kernel archives tarball. I simply did

    tar xf linux-3.16.2.tar.xz
    cd linux-3.16.2
    cp /boot/config-`uname -r` .config
    yes "" | make oldconfig
    make -j16
    make deb-pkg

from within a running Ubuntu mainline kernel image 3.16.2-utopic (http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/) on Ubuntu 14.04.1 (it will probably work with the latest correct mainline kernel image (with trusty-suffix) as well).