Sudden disconnection

[Thetargos]

I stumbled tonight with yet another (quite) strange problem with Werewolf, and this time I swear I had nothing to do with it!

The problem I've been experiencing is that my computer has started to suffer from "sudden disconnections". I was testing how would PulseAudio work with my favorite VoIP application, TeamSpeak , when I suddenly was disconnected from my local server. So I went all the way downstairs to check the router, server, etc, and couldn't find anything wrong with the setup. Then, came back to my computer, and in a hunch restarted the network... Ugh-oh... The NIC wasn't getting any IP. So I went back downstairs and rebooted the router... Still no IP. Out of frustration (a la Windows) rebooted the machine. Lo and behold, eth0 got an IP (and I thought to my self "WTH?"). I continued testing TeamSpeak along with some more stuff, when suddenly (after minimizing a conversation Pidgin window), there it was again, a sudden disconnection.

VERY strange indeed. I'm not sure if this would have anything to do with my hardware setup, the kernel or some other thing. This has never happened to me before, and certainly not with Moonshine (F7)... Maybe it is just me, or there are some rather funny bugs in Werewolf... Or simply I happen to be a "bug magnet".

Anybody can confirm?

NIC is one of the generic 'tulip' family.

[violetConqueror]

I am having this problem also. I have been running 7 for a while with no problems at all, but when I upgraded to 8 my network disconnects randomly.

I have a wired connection, an onboard via ethernet adapter. I did the installation with nearly all defaults except I am using reiserfs (and therefor have SElinux disabled) and I turned off the firewall (not really worried about being hacked and it messes with torrents).

Thetargos, try disconnecting and reconnecting through the network manager. Hopefully we have the same bug and therefor the same fix.

The connection is fine when I first boot, and will work normally for maybe five minutes, then it disconnects (this means I can't download updates to see if that will fix it). I also know its not my internet being unreliable (which it is, stupid dsl) because I can't log into my router. If I disconnect the connectiong (through network manager) and reconnect I always get an ip again, but it disconnects (it seems like it runs for a shorter and shorter time before disconnecting everytime i restart the connection). Anyone have any ideas?

[Thetargos]

I'm not certain the problem is the same, as this happens to me some time after I boot/login, about 15 minutes. I'm not running NetworkManager and I saw earlier someone report that having NetworkManager actually CAUSED problems like these, hence I disabled it. What's worse is that it doesn't matter if the connection is active, it simply stops receiving any data, particularly annoying with streaming video.