Network connection fails intermittently on feisty

Thanks for your bug report. Could you elaborate as to what kind of network configuration you have? Are you using dhcp or static IP addressing? How exactly does the network fail? Thanks in advance.

My wired network randomly disconnects. I am using DHCP, and I have a Marvell NIC.

Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8038 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 14)

I copied a chunk of the system log when this happened one time.

Oh, and I have to reboot before the connection comes back. I can't just disconnect and reconnect.

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately we can't fix it, because your description doesn't yet have enough information.
Please include the following additional information, if you have not already done so (please pay attention to lspci's additional options), as required by the Ubuntu Kernel Team:
1. Please include the output of the command 'uname -a' in your next response. It should be one, long line of text which includes the exact kernel version you're running, as well as the CPU architecture.
2. Please run the command 'dmesg > dmesg.log' and attach the resulting file 'dmesg.log' to this bug report.
3. Please run the command 'lspci -vvnn > lspci-vvnn.log' and attach the resulting file 'lspci-vvnn.log' to this bug report.
For your reference, the full description of procedures for kernel-related bug reports is available at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingKernelProblems . Thanks in advance!

Linux maco-unstable 2.6.20-9-generic #2 SMP Mon Feb 26 03:01:44 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

and it won't let me set two attachments, so hang on for the other...

The wireless does disconnect a lot too, but it could also just be the network. I know other (non-Linux-using) students have trouble with it. Other times it says it's connected but can't reach the server to authenticate the VPN. When the wireless drops, it tells me. When the wired drops, it claims to still be connected.

Okay, I take back my issues and confirmation here. My failing wired connection is caused by sky2's bugginess (just was told last week that the drivers for my Marvell card are known to be buggy). My wireless is actually working fine and it's the school's VPN authentication that's borked, because it works fine with unencrypted and WEP, but when the signal's low the vpn client drops sometimes, for which it is becoming notorious.

Zip are you still having any issues? If not I'm going to close the bug report.

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and feel free to submit bug reports in the future.