Comment 13 for bug 109629

I read about this workaround before.

For me this workaround made the NIC stop working halfway opening my homepage
in Firefox.

2007/7/8, Balaam's Miracle <email address hidden>:
>
> The following WORKAROUND works for me. I've performed these steps 3 days
> ago and my machine have been running non-stop, using the latest Feisty
> kernel (2.6.20-16-386):
>
> Open menu.lst with:
> sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst
>
> Using Ctrl+W, Find the line that says:
> # defoptions=quiet splash
>
> and change it to:
> # defoptions=quiet splash irqpoll
>
> Close nano with Ctrl+X and confirm saving of file.
>
> Next, enter:
> sudo update-grub
>
> After a reboot, both NICs worked for me and kept working.
> However, and i want to stress this: This is only a workaround, not a fix
> as a fix would make this workaround redundant.
> I hope this works for other people as well.
>
> Good luck everyone!
>
> --
> 3com NIC stops working after some time
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/109629
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