The sky2 driver in 2.6.18.2 corrects the issues with the fast ethernet sky2 variant found in quite a few laptops.
See '88E803X transmit lockup': http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.18.2
The sky2 v1.9 driver should be backported - I have two sky2 platforms, and v1.9 resolves all the stall, crash, etc issues I was finding before.
The sky2 driver in 2.6.18.2 corrects the issues with the fast ethernet sky2 variant found in quite a few laptops.
See '88E803X transmit lockup': http:// www.kernel. org/pub/ linux/kernel/ v2.6/ChangeLog- 2.6.18. 2
The sky2 v1.9 driver should be backported - I have two sky2 platforms, and v1.9 resolves all the stall, crash, etc issues I was finding before.