[nzlug] OMG, whats going on with my Ubuntu?!?

[Craig Box]

Sid Bachtiar wrote:
>> Looks good - nothing amiss.  Is anything coming up in 'dmesg'?  Have
>> you rebooted since your upgrade?
> 
> Yes I have, many times now (a behaviour I got from using Windows I
> guess) 
> 
> dmesg gave me lots of messages, some interesting ones:
> 
> tulip_stop_rxtx() failed

Aha!
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/48287

Upgrading to the latest kernel should fix your problem.  To get stable
networking in the meantime, try 'ifdown eth0; rmmod tulip; modprobe dmfe;
ifup eth0'.

Craig