Comment 34 for bug 147639

As a workaround.. just installed ubuntu 9.04 alpha4 which solved the problem.

% sudo lshw -C Network
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: L2 100 Mbit Ethernet Adapter
       vendor: Attansic Technology Corp.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: a0
       serial: 00:21:97:8a:2f:98
       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=192.168.1.2 latency=0 link=yes module=atl2 multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100MB/s
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       physical id: 1
       logical name: virbr0
       serial: 36:23:75:ba:cb:33
       capabilities: ethernet physical
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=bridge driverversion=2.3 firmware=N/A ip=192.168.122.1 link=yes multicast=yes