Atheros AR821 (Asus P5Q Pro) and 'ale' driver

[Giuseppe Pagnoni]

Dear all,

I am running freebsd 7.1 rel  on an Asus p5q pro motherboard with an
onboard ethernet chip Atheros AR8121.  I am using the "ale" driver,
which generally seems to work, although I noticed that when connecting
via ssh to the machine, I get disconnected with "corrupted MAC on
input" a little too often.

Does anybody know if this may be an issue related to the ethernet
driver, or is it likely to be something totally unrelated?  (I don't
get the same behavior, though, when the machine is booted in Ubuntu).

thank you very much for any suggestions

giuseppe