There seems to be some problems with the tulip drivers in Dapper. Using the dmfe driver fixes this.
Add:
dmfe
to /etc/modules
Use:
sudo echo dmfe >> /etc/modules
and:
blacklist tulip
to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
Use:
sudo echo tulip >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
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