Sorry about the incomplete post previously. But, I like to confirm that the same thing happened to me. It is clearly a problem with the NIC driver.
- The problem does NOT appear in 12.04
- When the NIC died, other computers on the network is still connecting to the Internet fine.
- Unplug the wire, re-plug-in, network comes up, you can resume download, and network connection dies soon after.
Wifi would work fine, but of course it is much slower. I use the network cable when I am downloading large files. As a result, nightly apt-get updates now are over Wifi.
Sorry about the incomplete post previously. But, I like to confirm that the same thing happened to me. It is clearly a problem with the NIC driver.
- The problem does NOT appear in 12.04
- When the NIC died, other computers on the network is still connecting to the Internet fine.
- Unplug the wire, re-plug-in, network comes up, you can resume download, and network connection dies soon after.
Wifi would work fine, but of course it is much slower. I use the network cable when I am downloading large files. As a result, nightly apt-get updates now are over Wifi.