diff -Nru a/drivers/net/e100.c b/drivers/net/e100.c
--- a/drivers/net/e100.c	Fri Mar 12 14:26:45 2004
+++ b/drivers/net/e100.c	Fri Mar 12 14:26:45 2004
@@ -1346,6 +1346,7 @@
 		cb->dma_addr = nic->cbs_dma_addr + i * sizeof(struct cb);
 		cb->link = cpu_to_le32(nic->cbs_dma_addr +
 			((i+1) % count) * sizeof(struct cb));
+		cb->skb = NULL;
 	}
 
 	nic->cb_to_use = nic->cb_to_send = nic->cb_to_clean = nic->cbs;