April 3, 201115 yr Author I saw several articles where people had that ASPM problem. it was never enabled on my board, but I make sure every time! So I disabled LAN1 and enabled LAN2, then booted with a static IP connected to the gigabit switch (trendnet 8 port). It worked as it has before, as eth0, on the LAN, no WAN. So I rebooted and assigned a fixed DHCP address. It's back on the net. For how long is anybody's guess. It drops as a DHCP fixed, static, anything. At least I have downloading back and a way to fix the no IP address thing as a stopgap (unplugging), but I don't even know what part of this little plan to blame so I can fix it. If it happens again I'll install the NIC. If that works, I think I can safely call the integrated NICs the problem.
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