Comment 40 for bug 136836

I can understand your disappointment but please take into account that in Linux it is the geeks and the users that have to work around broken or strange hardware while for other OS the vendors care more.
For your problem: you could check whether the network card is running in the wrong mode by looking at the output of 'cat /proc/interrupts'. in MSI/-X mode the interrupt number is usually one above 200, while otherwise you get one below that.
If the card is running in MSI/-X mode and you want a quick solution without minding a slight performance hit, you might try "nomsi" as an option added to the grub options.
But if your card is not in MSI mode, this would be a different issue and probably needs more investigation. And I am afraid this will require some time and effort.