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I have a network card:

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8050 PCI-E ASF Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 18)

And it seems the card resets randomly. Here is a dmesg:

  
[751806.503694] sky2 eth1: hung mac 124:54 fifo 195 (128:123)
[751806.503702] sky2 eth1: receiver hang detected
[751806.504154] sky2 eth1: disabling interface
[751806.504440] sky2 eth1: enabling interface
[751809.712495] sky2 eth1: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex, flow control rx
[970196.706605] sky2 eth1: hung mac 0:2 fifo 195 (194:189)
[970196.706611] sky2 eth1: receiver hang detected
[970196.706913] sky2 eth1: disabling interface
[970196.707227] sky2 eth1: enabling interface
[970199.917018] sky2 eth1: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex, flow control rx

It seems there is a problem with the network driver, sky2; but I haven't yet found any answer in other forums. Do you have any suggestions? Can I use another driver for the card? Is it a known bug?

Thanks!

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Does anybody know if this problem is still present in ubuntu 8.10 and/or 9.04??? I mean, migration to a newer version would correct the problem? – Matias Oct 15 '09 at 14:36
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The sky2 driver was unusably bad for many years.

I do believe it's mostly fine these days, the 9.10 version should work fine.

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