Comment 30 for bug 83009

I found the 'transmit timed out' issue solved totally by moving from firmware 1.9 to 2.2 on my 88E8053; others have reported success with firmware updates to their 8056 NICs also. Contact your motherboard vendor for the update.

You can find the current firmware version using: http://www.marvell.com/drivers/files/yukondg_v6.53.4.3.zip

I posted more info about this at:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=121967539303140&w=2