I have the identical ethernet controller but it does work; however it takes up to 3 minutes to connect to the NIC once the desktop has been established in either Unity or KDE(Kubuntu). Both of my test systems are at the 11.10 beta 1 level with all updates applied to 2011-09-14. MB is ASUS M4A89GTD Pro with AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1090T processor.
I have the identical ethernet controller but it does work; however it takes up to 3 minutes to connect to the NIC once the desktop has been established in either Unity or KDE(Kubuntu). Both of my test systems are at the 11.10 beta 1 level with all updates applied to 2011-09-14. MB is ASUS M4A89GTD Pro with AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1090T processor.