The following reply was made to PR kern/37438; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Mihai Chelaru <kefren@ngnetworks.ro>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: jakllsch@siwenna.wlan.kollasch.net
Subject: Re: kern/37438
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:02:02 +0200

 Hi,
 
 Regarding this PR, did you try a simple patch like the one below ? I'm using 
 it here with 8139B cards and watchdog timeout messages are gone. I don't know 
 if/how this changes the behaviour of other card types.
 
 Index: if_rtk_pci.c
 ===================================================================
 RCS file: /cvsroot/src/sys/dev/pci/if_rtk_pci.c,v
 retrieving revision 1.30.2.1
 diff -u -r1.30.2.1 if_rtk_pci.c
 --- if_rtk_pci.c        16 May 2007 20:44:12 -0000      1.30.2.1
 +++ if_rtk_pci.c        14 Dec 2007 09:56:30 -0000
 @@ -211,6 +211,17 @@
         }
 
         /*
 +        * Bus mastering
 +        */
 +       pci_conf_write(pc, pa->pa_tag, PCI_COMMAND_STATUS_REG,
 +           pci_conf_read(pc, pa->pa_tag, PCI_COMMAND_STATUS_REG) |
 +           PCI_COMMAND_MASTER_ENABLE);
 +
 +       if ((pci_conf_read(pc, pa->pa_tag, PCI_COMMAND_STATUS_REG) &
 +           PCI_COMMAND_MASTER_ENABLE) == 0)
 +               aprint_error("Cannot enable bus mastering\n");
 +
 +       /*
          * Map control/status registers.
          */
  #ifdef RTK_USEIOSPACE
 
 
 -- 
 Mihai