RealTek NIC card problem

[Lazar Fleysher <fleysher@chudo.lanl.gov>]

Hello everybody,

I have a machine running 2.0.36 kernel and a RealTek 8139B card installed.
When I sit at the consol, everything is fine, however, if I connect to the
machine via, say ssh, and run netscape, the network card stops responding
and on the consol I see the message:

eth0: Transmit timeout, status 0d 2000

# ifconfig eth0 down 
and then
# /etc/init.d/network 
fixes the problem. This situation is repeatable. So, could someone tell me
what is happening and if there is a way to fix it?

Thank you very much.

Lazar