> This patch fixes a tx underflow error for 79c973 chip. It essentially delay > the transmission until the whole packet is received into the on-chip sdram. > > The patch is already accepted by Marcelo for the 2.4 tree, I think. Which slows the stuff down for people with real computers. Please apply some kind of heuristic to this - eg switch to delaying if you exceed 50 failures in a 60 second period. Alan