Comment 10 for bug 619343

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David Holmer (odinguru) wrote : Re: High CPU on events/0 or 1 and on board networkcard non functional

I believe I found a solution to this problem:

You must fully power OFF your computer to clear this error state. Reboot/restart and sleep are NOT sufficient.

I was able to get my Ethernet port working normally again by shutting down, unplugging AC adapter, and removing battery for a minute. When I brought the machine back up after this Ethernet port was working normally again and has been for some time now.

Before hitting upon this solution I was able to guess that this was some kind of hardware bug because my Ethernet port still didn't work even if I rebooted into Windows Vista (i.e. it was specific to Ubuntu or Linux).

I suspect that all the people above who reported switching to a different kernel solving their problem may have done a shutdown and that is what "fixed" their issue rather than the different kernel itself.

Hope this helps anyone else coming here with the same problem.