Comment 29 for bug 573259

I am another person with this problem. Motherboard is Gigabyte GIGABYTE GA-G41MT-D3. I am running Ubuntu 10.10 64 bit. Network chip is Realtek RTL8111D. PC will boot up and networking works for about 2 minutes. It then fails but comes back of its own accord if left for 5 or 10 minutes. Networking will then work ok for a while and then have failures of several minutes every now and again. When it fails I cannot ping either by IP number or by URL however bittorrent continues to work ok. I was amazed by that!

The kernel is 2.6.35-24-generic. I was running the R8169 kernel module but have now changed it to the R8168 module. That did no good. When I boot the machine into Windows networking is perfect. Disconnecting power and ethernet followed by a reboot does not work for me. Booting off a Knoppix 6.2 CD and the networking is perfect. The Knoppix kernel is 2.6.32.6 and the module is R8169. Since the R8169 module did not work for me with the Ubuntu kernel I suspect that the kernel may be where the problem is.