Comment 16 for bug 90271

What happens on the box I just built using an old Realtek 8139 card I had lying around is that the 8139too driver will load. But, after using the network for a while, the whole computer will hang.

I finally figured out to swap the Realtek 8139 card out for a Linksys and my computer is running flawlessly.

That does leave the posibility that my problem is a bad NIC and not some issue with the driver. I haven't tried the NIC under another operating system.

I was able to reproduce the problem in a simple test case here by simply downloading a 700 MB iso image. It would consistently hang within an hour with the Realtek, it always worked fine with the Linksys.