Bizarre Transmission-induced network bug, driver crapping out maybe?

[Christopher Chan]

> SIS are useless. Onboard graphics flickered, onboard sound had
> crackling interference. Onboard network close to useless. AVOID at all
> costs. :)
>
> Thanks for helping anyway, but this time it turns out to be dodgy hardware. :)
>

Could well have been a dodgy driver. I wonder if the sis nic driver is 
at all maintained.