>As it is I forgot to mention I'm dual booting ubuntu and having booted into >windows and back into ubuntu > I now have an internet connection! Either that has significance of some kind > or my problem is >inconsistent and intermittent.
Right this can unfortunately happen both ways. One driver leaves or sets a device into a state the other cannot or accidentally does not handle well. Yes, this is what it might look with MSI: 220: 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge eth0 And this without: 21: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi eth0 (note I quickly grabbed those from 2 different system, which probably run different kernels, so it must not be exactly like that. ;-)) -- Ethernet (nVidia MCP55) not working [ gutsy, hardy] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/136836 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs