Update after my message wrote on 2010-06-15

> the ethernet MAC address is incorrectly read.
> The first four pairs of characters are rendered as zeros.

I confirm that this part of the bug seems to be fixed. I never had weird
MAC addresses anymore! That's fine!

However...

> Occasionally, the ethernet adapter doesn't register at all and the 
> light on the ethernet switch blinks slowly on and off, about once per second.

This still happens occasionally. Rarely, but it happens. The only
solution is a "cold restart" of the machine.

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r8169 ethernet MAC address changes in 2.6.32 kernel
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/562742
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