Comment 25 for bug 454747

I think the watchdog kicked-in because the via-rhine driver did not respond to a command (I think I read somewhere that it waits 10ms). So, assuming that the Ethernet controller has hung, the system attempts to reset the VT6102 chip, but looking at the log that isn't successful either, it just repeats the process forever.

I'm tempted to install an Intel Pro 1000 card I have hanging around until someone takes notice of this problem. Like you say, it's very troublesome.