Comment 32 for bug 147639

I could also reproduce this issue with Ubuntu 8.10 2.6.27 server kernel. Apparently it uses some older version of the 2.0.x branch of the atl2 drivers (As far I remember 2.0.3).

One "solution" to this issue would be upgrading to the 2.6.28 kernel which uses a more recent version of the atl2 driver (2.2.3). There no debian packages available for that one yet - make_kpkg got me a nice build though with no issues so far. Performance is not that great as it was before (2.2.3 ~7,5 mb/s, 2.0.3: ~11mb/s read/write speeds using samba) but at least it won't crash every now and then.

pulsar@wallet:~$ sudo lshw -C Network
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: L2 100 Mbit Ethernet Adapter
       vendor: Attansic Technology Corp.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: a0
       serial: 00:1f:c6:86:6a:7e
       size: 100MB/s
       capacity: 100MB/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=atl2 driverversion=2.2.3 duplex=full firmware=L2 ip=192.168.1.100 latency=0 link=yes module=atl2 multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100MB/s
pulsar@wallet:~$ uname -a
Linux wallet 2.6.28 #1 SMP Tue Jan 6 17:00:10 CET 2009 i686 GNU/Linux