I've just confirmed that the problems started with the changeover to kernel 2.2.13 (and the new sunlance driver). Looking into my kern.log file produced:
This is kernel 2.2.1: Nov 17 23:15:15 sparc kernel: PROMLIB: Sun Boot Prom Version 3 Revision 2 Nov 17 23:15:15 sparc kernel: Linux version 2.2.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #1 Sun Feb 28 18:57:45 EST 1999 Nov 17 23:15:15 sparc kernel: ARCH: SUN4M Nov 17 23:15:15 sparc kernel: TYPE: SPARCstation 4 Nov 17 23:15:15 sparc kernel: Ethernet address: 8:0:20:7d:7f:ff Nov 17 23:15:15 sparc kernel: Boot time fixup v1.6. 4/Mar/98 Jakub Jelinek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Patching kernel for srmmu[Fujitsu Swift]/iommu Nov 17 23:15:15 sparc kernel: [0]: v[f0000000,f2800000](2800000) p[00000000] Nov 17 23:15:15 sparc kernel: [1]: v[f4000000,f47ad000](7ad000) p[04000000] Nov 17 23:15:15 sparc kernel: SRMMU: Compact physical memory. Using strightforward VA<->PA translations. Nov 17 23:15:15 sparc kernel: Found CPU 0 <node=ffd4519c,mid=0> ... <snip> ... Nov 17 23:15:15 sparc kernel: sunlance.c:v1.11 27/Dec/97 Miguel de Icaza ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Nov 17 23:15:15 sparc kernel: eth0: LANCE 08:00:20:7d:7f:ff Nov 17 23:15:15 sparc kernel: eth0: using auto-carrier-detection. Nov 17 23:15:15 sparc kernel: Partition check: ... etc. And this is kernel 2.2.13: Nov 18 23:44:54 sparc kernel: PROMLIB: Sun Boot Prom Version 3 Revision 2 Nov 18 23:44:54 sparc kernel: Linux version 2.2.13 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #1 Wed Nov 3 09:26:24 EST 1999 Nov 18 23:44:54 sparc kernel: ARCH: SUN4M Nov 18 23:44:54 sparc kernel: TYPE: SPARCstation 4 Nov 18 23:44:54 sparc kernel: Ethernet address: 8:0:20:7d:7f:ff Nov 18 23:44:54 sparc kernel: Boot time fixup v1.6. 4/Mar/98 Jakub Jelinek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Patching kernel for srmmu[Fujitsu Swift]/iommu Nov 18 23:44:54 sparc kernel: [0]: v[f0000000,f2800000](2800000) p[00000000] Nov 18 23:44:54 sparc kernel: [1]: v[f4000000,f47ad000](7ad000) p[04000000] Nov 18 23:44:54 sparc kernel: SRMMU: Compact physical memory. Using strightforward VA<->PA translations. Nov 18 23:44:54 sparc kernel: Found CPU 0 <node=ffd4519c,mid=0> ... <snip> ... Nov 18 23:44:54 sparc kernel: sunlance.c:v1.12 11/Mar/99 Miguel de Icaza ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Nov 18 23:44:54 sparc kernel: eth0: LANCE 08:00:20:7d:7f:ff Nov 18 23:44:54 sparc kernel: eth0: using auto-carrier-detection. Nov 18 23:44:54 sparc kernel: eth0: Carrier Lost, trying TPE Nov 18 23:44:54 sparc kernel: Sending BOOTP and RARP requests............. timed out! Nov 18 23:44:54 sparc kernel: IP-Config: Auto-configuration of network failed. Nov 18 23:44:54 sparc kernel: Partition check: ... etc. Does this look like a driver bug to be reported? -- Akor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
