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> Search on 'rtl8169' 'stops working'.  I got 1510 results. Someone reported
> the problem for Ubuntu, and there was someone investigating a kernel bug.
> The card stops working in 5-30 minutes. 'A real power-off is needed to
> recover the card' (2007).
>
> So it is a bug, not something wrong with your card or what you are doing.
> Let us know what you learn about a possible fix.
> Someone changed the MAC address in /etc/iftab.  ????

Although the reports are very similar, I don't see any that are like
mine... In my case, the entire computer freezes, and in most cases I
could find on google, only the NIC stopped working.

Also, I couldn't find a single instance where someone used a 2.4
kernel... Although that might just be because it's old.

What I can't figure out, though, is why it worked perfectly earlier...
I can't think of anything I did that caused it; I was trying (and
failing) to compile a kernel.