Since you are using an e100, I would suspect the "CPU cycle saver" patch that was added in 2.6.13, then removed in one of the stablilty releases. A fixed version of the patch is in 2.6.14. Read the netdev archives for more detail.
Since you are using an e100, I would suspect the "CPU cycle saver" patch that was added in 2.6.13, then removed in one of the stablilty releases. A fixed version of the patch is in 2.6.14. Read the netdev archives for more detail.