Network problems with VIA chipset and Athlon XP

[Mark Hahn]

> I'd guess it's the VIA KT266 chipset.

me too.

> There are some comments on what might be the problem at:
> http://www.cicese.mx/~mirsev/Linux/VIA/VIA-latency-linux.html
> "PCI latency" patch for Linux (for KT266A chipset only)

I think this particular workaround should already be in the kernel.

for this kind of problem, it makes a lot of sense to make sure you've
got the latest bios installed, spend some time scrutinizing all your 
bios settings, and also look at verbose lspci output.  I'd also consider
trying with/without uniprocessor-local-apic support in the kernel.