HP Mini 1030NR Gigabit Ethernet Adapter and Linux

I purchased an HP 1030NR, because, IMHO, they are the sexiest netbooks currently on the market. They are sleek, lightweight, and they don't have a wonkey keyboard layout like some netbooks (I'm looking at you, ASUS).

One problem: the onboard nic controller (Marvell 88E8040 adapter, sky2 kernel module) doesn't quite work right on a default install of Ubuntu 9.04. Sometimes it works, sometimes it's not even detected (you can't see it listed when you type @lspci@). Sometimes it's detected, and works, but locks the machine up if you unplug your network cable. Not cool.

After some digging around, I found that there is an easy way to fix this. Edit /boot/grub/menu.list, find the line that says something like this: # defoptions=quiet splash, add acpi_os_name=Linux at the end of the line, save the file, and type update-grub. Reboot, and viola, it should work normally from now on.