[Cooker] Mandrake 9.2rc2 (and rc1 previously) breaking my router

[Mike Eheler]

This is a really bizarre problem. I was told to email this address by 
someone in IRC.

The problem is this.. when I boot up 9.2, my router goes down.. I have 
to unplug it and plug it back in, then everything works again.

My router is a LinkSys BEFSR11.

All my machines plug into a hub which uplinks to the LinkSys.

It is a strange, strange problem that never happens anywhere else.. also 
another weird thing about it, is that it happens in an apparent random 
fashion while I'm running Mandrake 9.2.. I can work on the computer for 
hours and nothing will happen, then for no reason at all it goes down.. 
so I unplug and plug the router back in, everything works again for 15 
minutes, then down again.. do the same thing again, everything comes 
back up, so I go out, leaving my computer idle.. I come home and 
everything is fine.. but the next time I do the same thing, but it had 
died while I was gone.

It's really bizarre and incredibly frustrating because there are 
computers on my network that are providing services.

I have verified that it is not my local system not letting me out 
because when the problem happens (and I really have no idea how to 
re-created it, other than rebooting) my router is inaccessible from any 
of the computers on my LAN.

This does not happen in Mandrake 9.1, Microsoft Windows 2000 or any of 
the other operating systems on my LAN, so it must be 9.2 (it first 
happened the first time I booted 9.2rc1 up. I did not try any of the 
previous betas).

If you need any more information, email me.

Mike