Sky2 ethernet driver, stalling internet connection...

Test:
Going threw a linksys wrt54gs wireless router, and going directly
threw to a cable modem to the internet.

first:
lspci output
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8036 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 10)
        Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Unknown device 0506
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 58
        Region 0: Memory at c0100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Region 2: I/O ports at a000 [size=256]
        Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=1 PME-
        Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data
        Capabilities: [5c] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/1 Enable+
                Address: 00000000fee00000 Data: 403a
        Capabilities: [e0] Express Legacy Endpoint IRQ 0
                Device: Supported: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, ExtTag-
                Device: Latency L0s unlimited, L1 unlimited
                Device: AtnBtn- AtnInd- PwrInd-
                Device: Errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
                Device: RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop-
                Device: MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 512 bytes
                Link: Supported Speed 2.5Gb/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s, Port 3
                Link: Latency L0s <256ns, L1 unlimited
                Link: ASPM Disabled RCB 128 bytes CommClk- ExtSynch-
                Link: Speed 2.5Gb/s, Width x1
        Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
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This is my nic card inside the laptop gateway mx7525

3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,10000> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:03:25:28:93:b3 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

So, status again...
and now the driver info:
[17179591.752000] sky2 v1.6.1 addr 0xc0100000 irq 50 Yukon-FE (0xb7) rev 1
[17179591.752000] sky2 eth1: addr 00:03:25:28:93:b3
[17179591.888000] sky2 eth1: enabling interface

[17181376.632000] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
[17182886.152000] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
[17183005.324000] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
[17183203.944000] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
[17183255.416000] sky2 eth1: Link is down.
[17183260.856000] sky2 eth1: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex, flow control none
[17183356.460000] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
[17184282.556000] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
[17184446.172000] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
[17186122.460000] sky2 eth1: Link is down.
[17186127.172000] sky2 eth1: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex, flow control none

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As you can see, this problem is also in kubuntu as well.
was told in the irc channel, that sk98lin driver is better, and sky2, has bugs..
well, it does have bugs, since downloading large files, 600 megs iso images,
it will stall out about a 1/3 of the way... even when going direct connect to the cable modem, and by-passing the linksys router, still it will hang and stall out, an I can't even ping the modem, can not get out until I do a reboot of the laptop. please fix this.