Watchdog Timeouts on NIC?

[Daniel A.]

On 3/24/06, Frank <frank at host6.miwebdns6.com> wrote:
> I have recently upgraded an old box (400mhz AMD-K6) from 4.11-RELEASE to
> 6.0-RELEASE, I am constantly getting watchdog timeouts on my NIC and
> subsequently my networking... is not working on this machine any more. I am
> using a 3com 3c905B-TX NIC. Please advise.
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I have the same problem with my onboard sis0.
After googling, I found out that it probably means that the nic is
getting old/weared/bad quality.