Comment 0 for bug 92085

Binary package hint: network-manager

Todays updates on Feisty Herd5 caused my ethernet nic card to stop
working. The card (Winbond Electronics Corp W89C940) had been working
just fine prior to the updates today. It shows up in lspci and the
Networking gui (it's configured with a fixed IP address), but lsconfig
shows:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:78:14:53:AE
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:45 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:2599 (2.5 KiB) TX bytes:2808 (2.7 KiB)
          Interrupt:9 Base address:0xe400

I also tried setting it with DHCP and that changed nothing.

Updates went from kernel 2.6.20-9-generic to 2.6.20-10-generic.

Connected a Airlink 101 USB ethernet adapter that I use for testing and
that was immediately recognized and is up and running on eth1 without
any configuration necessary.

Backing down to 2.6.20-9 doesn't make any difference.

The card works just fine when running Dapper on the same machine.

Finally uninstalled network-manager 0.6.4-6ubuntu3 and the card is working again just fine. Unfortunately, network-manager 0.6.4-6ubuntu3 is now part of the ubuntu-desktop meta package, so uninstalling the network-manager 0.6.4-6ubuntu3 also requires uninstalling ubuntu-desktop.

Added note: ifconfig (with network-manager uninstalled) now reports the card properly AND shows it on Interrupt:11 vs Interrupt:9 (same base address)