--- linux/drivers/net/eepro.c	2002-11-29 00:53:13.000000000 +0100
+++ linux.new/drivers/net/eepro.c	2003-01-10 13:01:55.000000000 +0100
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@
 	This is a compatibility hardware problem.
 
 	Versions:
+	0.14	padding of ethernet frames of length less than
+		ETH_ZLEN (01/10/2003)
 	0.13a   in memory shortage, drop packets also in board
 		(Michael Westermann <mw@microdata-pos.de>, 07/30/2002)
 	0.13    irq sharing, rewrote probe function, fixed a nasty bug in
@@ -104,7 +106,7 @@
 */
 
 static const char version[] =
-	"eepro.c: v0.13 11/08/2001 aris@cathedrallabs.org\n";
+	"eepro.c: v0.14 01/10/2003 aris@cathedrallabs.org\n";
 
 #include <linux/module.h>
 
@@ -1138,9 +1140,16 @@
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&lp->lock, flags);
 
 	{
-		short length = ETH_ZLEN < skb->len ? skb->len : ETH_ZLEN;
+		short length;
 		unsigned char *buf = skb->data;
 
+		if (ETH_ZLEN <= skb->len) {
+			length = skb->len
+		} else {
+			length = ETH_ZLEN;
+			memset(buf + skb->len, 0, length - skb->len);
+		}
+		
 		if (hardware_send_packet(dev, buf, length))
 			/* we won't wake queue here because we're out of space */
 			lp->stats.tx_dropped++;