I have the same problem. It was working fine on kubuntu 8.04 w/ kernel 2.6.24-23 I just did a fresh install of Kubuntu 8.10 and I'm getting the same errors:
I have a few partitions mounted over NFS. It hapens when I do large transfers. dmesg: [ 6713.988320] b44: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex. [ 6713.988331] b44: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX. [ 6736.366678] b44: eth0: powering down PHY [ 6736.988227] b44: eth0: Link is down. [ 6739.989318] b44: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex. [ 6739.989329] b44: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX. lspci 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility X1400 Subsystem: Dell Device 2002 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16 Region 0: Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Region 1: I/O ports at ee00 [size=256] Region 2: Memory at efdf0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Expansion ROM at efe00000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: <access denied> 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02) Subsystem: Dell Device 01cd Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 64 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17 Region 0: Memory at ef9fe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: b44 Kernel modules: b44 dpkg -l ii radeontool 1.5-5build1 utility to control ATI Radeon backlight func ii xserver-xorg-video-radeon 1:6.9.0+git20081003.f9826a56-0ubuntu2.1 X.Org X server -- ATI Radeon display driver -- Unreliable network connection with B44 driver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279102 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