I have "Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller" network card on my laptop, runs fine on ubuntu 8.10 but in kubuntu 8.10 it says "eth0 down" before i connect a wire, and "eth0 disconnected" after connecting the wire. I have a manual IP config, have configured it using KNetworkManager. Any idea whats wrong?

IP Config-
172.32.5.7
255.255.0.0
172.32.0.11

172.40.4.2
202.144.95.4