The ether_crc were converted to use the crc32 library in 2.5.
The conversion is incorrect:

crc32_le and _be are about the bit order in which the bits are processed:
_le means least significant bit first, _be msb first.

ethernet is always lsb first.
ether_crc means the output should be in the cpu bit order [msb in bit 31],
ether_crc_le means the output should be with msb in bit 0: that what 
crc32_le usually generates.

The attached patch is tested with winbond-840, natsemi and 8139too, i.e. 
ether_crc works.
ether_crc_le generates the same output as the inline functions from 
2.4.18, but it's untested due to lack of nics.

Could someone test it on a nic that uses ether_crc_le?

-- 
   Manfred