As a workaround.. just installed ubuntu 9.04 alpha4 which solved the problem.
% sudo lshw -C Network *-network description: Ethernet interface product: L2 100 Mbit Ethernet Adapter vendor: Attansic Technology Corp. physical id: 0 bus info: p...@0000:01:00.0 logical name: eth0 version: a0 serial: 00:21:97:8a:2f:98 size: 100MB/s capacity: 100MB/s width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=atl2 driverversion=2.2.3 duplex=full firmware=L2 ip=192.168.1.2 latency=0 link=yes module=atl2 multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100MB/s *-network description: Ethernet interface physical id: 1 logical name: virbr0 serial: 36:23:75:ba:cb:33 capabilities: ethernet physical configuration: broadcast=yes driver=bridge driverversion=2.3 firmware=N/A ip=192.168.122.1 link=yes multicast=yes -- Errors in attansic L2 "atl2" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/147639 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