10 seconds is far too long to check the link beat. Let's go
down to 200ms.

--- linux-2.4.36-alb25.6/drivers/net/via-rhine.c	Sun Jul 20 22:06:13 2008
+++ linux-2.4.36-alb25.6-alb500/drivers/net/via-rhine.c	Mon Jul 21 01:01:41 2008
@@ -1212,6 +1212,6 @@
 	struct net_device *dev = (struct net_device *)data;
 	struct netdev_private *np = dev->priv;
 	long ioaddr = dev->base_addr;
-	int next_tick = 10*HZ;
+	int next_tick = 2*HZ/10;
 
 	if (debug > 3) {