Hm, well, since the last post I had another install of Gutsy. (Don't ask - mostly to apply the lessons learned in my first ever setting-up of a RAID system, which I managed to learn without losing data!) Anyway, at the time I did that I'd forgotten all about this bug and so didn't set noapic... But it's been working fine with lots of network activity as before.
Hm, well, since the last post I had another install of Gutsy. (Don't ask - mostly to apply the lessons learned in my first ever setting-up of a RAID system, which I managed to learn without losing data!) Anyway, at the time I did that I'd forgotten all about this bug and so didn't set noapic... But it's been working fine with lots of network activity as before.
*shrug*. go figure. :-)