Disabling the on-board Via-Rhine NIC and using the 3COM 3C905B PCI NIC has resolved the problem. No timeouts and solid performance. Disabling ACPI in the BIOS seems to be a red herring.
Therefore, to me suggests a driver bug which needs an urgent fix especially as this chip-set is quite common. I'm running Kubuntu 9.10, kernel 2.6.31-17. -- NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (via-rhine): transmit queue 0 timed out https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/454747 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
