Comment 8 for bug 229392

I've got a RTL-8138/810x on the mobo with a Core Solo in Ubuntu 9.10 *hp slimline). It starts up and does its thing but then stops working. I can usually do an 'apt-get update' and maybe halfway through a "full-upgrade" before it starts with "host down" errors. Network connection looks normal but is unresponsive either to ping or the network manager trying to disconnect. Still investigating.