Comment 30 for bug 138611

I can reliably get my new system (XFX nForce 630i motherboard) with an integrated Marvell PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet controller to lock up HARD. All I have to do is FTP anything from another gigabit-equipped machine on my LAN, and the system instantly locks up requiring a hard reset. NFS transfers will also lock the system up. At slower speeds (i.e. pulling updates over the Internet) lockups are random. Once it locks up, only a hard reset will work.

I'm running Hardy Beta, but I had this problem in Gutsy as well. I'm also having problems with corrupted packages in {us,uk,de}.archive.ubuntu.com - so I can't even successfully download the nVidia proprietary display drivers (and thus I'm not using them). I'm not sure if that's an archive problem or if it's related to this awful sky2 driver. I'll have to find a cheap Gb NIC today and hope it's not Marvell.

I tried using "options sky2 disable_msi=1" in /etc/modprobe.d/options, but it did not fix the problem.

03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 14)
        Subsystem: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Unknown device 00ba
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 20
        Region 0: Memory at efcfc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Region 2: I/O ports at df00 [size=256]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at efb00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 3
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=1 PME-
        Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data
        Capabilities: [5c] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
                Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000
        Capabilities: [e0] Express Legacy Endpoint IRQ 0
                Device: Supported: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, ExtTag-
                Device: Latency L0s unlimited, L1 unlimited
                Device: AtnBtn- AtnInd- PwrInd-
                Device: Errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
                Device: RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop-
                Device: MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 512 bytes
                Link: Supported Speed 2.5Gb/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1, Port 1
                Link: Latency L0s <256ns, L1 unlimited
                Link: ASPM Disabled RCB 128 bytes CommClk+ ExtSynch-
                Link: Speed 2.5Gb/s, Width x1