Dan C wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:48:10 +0100, Andrew Woodward wrote:
>
>> So did I! When I bought a new laptop and installed Kubuntu it stopped
>> working. I went from scratching my head to tearing my hair out
>> Eventually, installing a different network card driver cured the problem.
>> Go figure...
>
> Heh. Yeah. The new laptop uses a different ethernet adapter than your
> old laptop, and you wouldn't think it would need a different driver?
>
> Of course it needs a different driver. Duh.
>
>
Yes - but the sky2 driver that was installed with Kubuntu 7.10 worked fine
with a directly wired connection at 100mbps, but *didn't* work with the
HomePlug at 10mbps. To get the ethernet connector working with both I had
to replace the driver with the sk98lin version.

A search on "sky2 marvell yukon" will show lots of issues with that driver
on the Marvell adapters.