Is anyone else experiencing symptoms like the following: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=154512 Summary: if I plug into the network at work, as soon as I try to download anything, the network card goes into an endless loop of: Apr 14 09:59:44 localhost kernel: b44: eth0: Link is down. Apr 14 09:59:47 localhost kernel: b44: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex. Apr 14 09:59:47 localhost kernel: b44: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX. Apr 14 09:59:52 localhost kernel: b44: eth0: Link is down. [... lather, rinse, repeat until I stop the attempted download] I can't do anything at all on the network because it's far too slow with all these restarts. However, if I use my broadband router at home, these symptoms don't occur. With the original Test 1 kernel (which I can't find anywhere!), I'm pretty sure I was able to make it go away by either booting the non-SMP kernel or disabling acpi on the boot line; but with Test 2, nothing I try has been able to make it go away. Is anyone else seeing this? This is on a Dell Inspiron 5160 laptop, and the network card identifies itself in lspci as: 02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02) Thanks for any suggestions you can give, MEF -- __ Mary Ellen Foster __ http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mef/ __ "One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs." (Robert Firth)