Comment 5 for bug 34219

bug in the driver for Davicom DM9102AF network card in Dapper

Device manger reports it as Davicom 21x4x DEC-Tulip compatible 10/100

During installation it initially works & then subsequently fails as it downloads from the repositories. If your pull the network cable out & put it back it seems to restart it & it will download a little more & then stop again. Painful but I managed to do an install this way & an apt-get update, apt-get upgrade apt-get dist-upgrade.

dmesg shows tulip_stop_rxtx() failed errors

This fixes it

rmmod tulip
ifdown eth0
rmmod dmfe
modprobe dmfe
ifup eth0

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=63161&highlight=davicom