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troublesome 3com cards?

I have a machine running as a central web stats processor. Nightly, I
have four Windows NT/2000 servers copying their web logs to the machine
via samba, and every morning I find the machine either frozen stiff or
greeting me with a cheery little ddb> prompt. In the latter case I most
often find the screen cluttered with "xl0: Bad receive - Packet dropped"
and/or "xl0: Watchdog timeout".

Checking the log from the VBscript that does the log copying from the
Windows machines I find that the OpenBSD machine crashes when the script
copies some rather large (50+ megs) log files.

My suspicion is directed towards the network adapter, which I have heard
some others complain quite a bit over. It's a 3Com etherlink server,
3c980c PCI card. Unfortunately, I don't have another card available
right now to test with. I've included a dmesg below.

Can anyone confirm my suspicion? Do 3Com cards really suck that bad, or
is there anything else I should be looking for?

Thanks
Mikael

OpenBSD 3.0 (GENERIC) #94: Thu Oct 18 14:48:27 MDT 2001
    deraadt@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: Intel Celeron (Mendocino) ("GenuineIntel" 686-class, 128KB L2
cache) 301 MHz
cpu0:
FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SYS,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,F
XSR
real mem  = 402239488 (392812K)
avail mem = 367063040 (358460K)
using 4935 buffers containing 20213760 bytes (19740K) of memory
mainbus0 (root)
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(d2) BIOS, date 08/21/98, BIOS32 rev. 0 @
0xfb280
apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2
apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown
pcibios0 at bios0: rev. 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0xb6fc
pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev. 1.0 @ 0xfdb80/144 (7 entries)
pcibios0: PCI Exclusive IRQs: 10 11
pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:07:0 ("Intel 82371SB PCI-ISA" rev
0x00)
pcibios0: PCI bus #1 is the last bus
bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x8000
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios)
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82443LX PCI-AGP" rev 0x03
ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Intel 82443LX AGP" rev 0x03
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
pcib0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 "Intel 82371AB PIIX4 ISA" rev 0x02
pciide0 at pci0 dev 7 function 1 "Intel 82371AB IDE" rev 0x01: DMA,
channel 0 wired to compatibility, channel 1 wired to compatibility
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <WDC WD200EB-00CSF0>
wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 19092MB, 16383 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 39102336
sectors
wd1 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 1: <WDC WD200EB-00CSF0>
wd1: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 19092MB, 16383 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 39102336
sectors
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
wd1(pciide0:0:1): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 1
scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets
cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <ATAPI, CD-ROM 52X, 196E> SCSI0 5/cdrom
removable
cd0(pciide0:1:1): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
uhci0 at pci0 dev 7 function 2 "Intel 82371AB USB" rev 0x01: irq 11
usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0 at usb0
uhub0: vendor 0x0000 UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
"Intel 82371AB Power Mgmt" rev 0x02 at pci0 dev 7 function 3 not
configured
vga1 at pci0 dev 8 function 0 "ATI Mach64 CT" rev 0x09
wsdisplay0 at vga1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
xl0 at pci0 dev 9 function 0 "3Com 3c980 100Base-TX" rev 0x30: irq 10
address 00:50:da:72:79:c0
exphy0 at xl0 phy 24: 3Com internal media interface
isa0 at pcib0
isadma0 at isa0
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
sysbeep0 at pcppi0
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
biomask c840 netmask cc40 ttymask cc42
pctr: 686-class user-level performance counters enabled
mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support
dkcsum: wd0 matched BIOS disk 80
dkcsum: wd1 matched BIOS disk 81
root on wd0a
rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302