2.4.2-ac4: eth0: interrupt(s) dropped!

I'm getting this in my syslog: Feb 25 21:51:35 chimborazo kernel: eth0: interrupt(s) dropped! Feb 25 21:52:04 chimborazo last message repeated 2 times Feb 25 21:56:35 chimborazo kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Feb 25 21:56:37 chimborazo kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit ti

OOPS: kfree?

The box is a Dell Lattitude CP laptop (P233 96meg ram). I've been doing IrDA work using 2.4.1-ac20. I was debugging some problems in my code(user space) when my vim froze (other VTs were fine). I killed the process and the kernel oopsed. Unfortunatly, I haven't been able to reproduce it. --Justi