[tulip] Careful with Conexant LANfinity and 2.4

[Marco Mellia]

> > > Donald,
> > >
> > > 	Any ideas why I'm getting
> > > kernel: Warning: kfree_skb on hard IRQ d09df9d0
> > Here is the patch to fix the first problem.
> I applied the patch... and the irq warning disappeared... but  now, after a
> given number of pkt sent I get other messages, like
>
> eth0: Out-of-sync dirty pointer, xxxx vs. yyyy, full=1.
>
> where xxxx smaller than yyyy

Only to add this interesting piece of info:
After the fto I started to ping here and there...
Here is an interesting result...
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[root@trofia root]# ping gramigna.polito.it
PING gramigna.polito.it (130.192.9.144) from 130.192.9.154 : 56(84) bytes of 
data.
64 bytes from gramigna.polito.it (130.192.9.144): icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=458 
usec
64 bytes from gramigna.polito.it (130.192.9.144): icmp_seq=7 ttl=255 time=463 
usec
64 bytes from gramigna.polito.it (130.192.9.144): icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 
time=6.004
sec
64 bytes from gramigna.polito.it (130.192.9.144): icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 
time=5.004
sec
64 bytes from gramigna.polito.it (130.192.9.144): icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 
time=4.004
sec
64 bytes from gramigna.polito.it (130.192.9.144): icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 
time=3.004
sec
64 bytes from gramigna.polito.it (130.192.9.144): icmp_seq=5 ttl=255 
time=2.004
sec
64 bytes from gramigna.polito.it (130.192.9.144): icmp_seq=6 ttl=255 
time=1.004
sec
64 bytes from gramigna.polito.it (130.192.9.144): icmp_seq=8 ttl=255 
time=5.032
sec
64 bytes from gramigna.polito.it (130.192.9.144): icmp_seq=9 ttl=255 
time=4.032
sec
64 bytes from gramigna.polito.it (130.192.9.144): icmp_seq=10 ttl=255 
time=3.032 sec
 
--- gramigna.polito.it ping statistics ---
49 packets transmitted, 12 packets received, 75% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/mdev = 0.458/2929.869/6004.257/1894.990 ms
[root@trofia root]# ping gramigna.polito.it
PING gramigna.polito.it (130.192.9.144) from 130.192.9.154 : 56(84) bytes of 
data.
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this is on my mandrake 8.0, with kernel 
[root@trofia root]# uname -a
Linux trofia.polito.it 2.4.3-20mdk #1 Sun Apr 15 23:03:10 CEST 2001 i686 


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