Comment 1 for bug 322916

I have the same problem. Same laptop, same network card, Ubuntu 8.10. I tend to do upgrades immediately, yesterday morning networking wouldn't work, apparently because of upgrades I did on Wednesday. Turns out to be the kernel upgrade, if I start the computer with kernel ...27-7 al is well.

What I found peculiar is that when I provided a static ip address, the network card would say "connected to network" while there still was no connection to other computers. dhcp would not get a lease.