On 14 Dec 2006, at 18:54, David Lord wrote:

> 
> I updated 3.1 on a Dell Inspiron 3500 and now find on 4.0-beta I'm 
> getting hangs due to 'rtk0: watchdog timeout'. Is this a known 
> problem?
> 
> I must have copied over several GB on 3.1 without problem whilst 
> trying to install Ubuntu an Win98 to multiboot on same machine.
> 
> 'ping -c 1 servername' gets the link going again but means it can't 
> be left unattended.

What is very strange is it's ok now after using ntpdate to set time 
(adjusted by about 20 seconds).

David