FC6 Weird Networking Problem

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Yesterday everything was fine. Last night I applied the latest updates which logwatch says consisted of:

--------------------- yum Begin ------------------------

Packages Updated:
   shadow-utils.i386 2:4.0.17-13.fc6
   autofs.i386 1:5.0.1-0.rc3.31
   xorg-x11-drv-savage.i386 2.1.2-3.fc6
   postgresql-libs.i386 8.1.9-1.fc6
   xorg-x11-server-Xorg.i386 1.1.1-47.9.fc6
   htmlview.noarch 4.0.0-3.fc6


This morning I couldn't unlock xscreensaver and X wouldn't restart after I killed it so I ended up rebooting. Now I'm seeing my ethernet connection drop:

Jun 8 17:23:13 bend kernel: tg3: tg3_abort_hw timed out for eth1, TX_MODE_ENABLE will not clear MAC_TX_MODE=ffffffff
Jun  8 17:23:13 bend kernel: tg3: eth1: Link is down.

at random. Even stranger is, if I keep a ping running, the interface stays up or at least stays up longer.

Has anyone seen anything like this before or have some idea what's causing it? A Google search for "tg3_abort_hw timed out" returned some interesting old stuff but nothing current. The system has all FC6 updates applied and has been stable until today. I can regress to the previous kernel (2.6.20-1.2948) or I pulled down the 2.6.21.4 kernel from kernel.org. I'll be trying those shortly. The NIC is a:

00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5701 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 15)
       Subsystem: 3Com Corporation 3C996B-T 1000Base-T
       Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
       Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
       [virtual] Expansion ROM at 88100000 [disabled] [size=64K]
       Capabilities: [40] PCI-X non-bridge device
       Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
       Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/3 Enable

Thanks,
Dave

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