Tim, thank you for your work. Sadly, like Darren, I too encountered
soft-lockups with that sky2.ko.2.6.20-14 (as with a complete vanilla
2.6.21-rc6 kernel). It's slightly better with this version. Removing the
module and reloading it again makes the network work again. With earlier
versions of the driver I often had to reboot because nearly everything
segfaulted after a soft-lockup (unable to handle kernel paging request
at virtual address xxxxxxxx).

Also I tested Marvell's non-free open-source upstream driver for several days 
and stressed it with downloading several Linux distro images while keeping the 
CPU high with compile jobs and [EMAIL PROTECTED] No softlockups, no nothing. 
That driver seems to be stable. If anyone wants to install it (download link in 
a comment above): the first line of the install.sh script needs to be changed 
from
#!/bin/sh
to
#!/bin/bash
to make it work. Further you need the kernel-header package installed for your 
kernel, i.e. linux-headers-2.6.20-14-generic and set a link from /usr/src/linux 
to these headers, for example
$ sudo ln -s /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.20-14-generic /usr/src/linux
After that, the install.sh script should work fine. Choose the option 1 for 
'installation', it will afterwards give the options to either remove or disable 
(it renames it) the existing sky2 driver, both options should work.

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sky2 transmit timeout and soft lockup detected on CPU#0! 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/83009
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