Bug#373621: debian-installer: netboot fails on Sun V100, errors from dmfe network driver

[Matthew Newton <mcn4@leicester.ac.uk>]

Package: debian-installer
Severity: important


The 2.4/2.6 netboot ("boot.img") images do not work on the Sun Fire
V100. This is caused by the network driver ("dmfe") repeatedly
giving the following errors:

  SABRE0: PCI SERR signal asserted.
  SABRE0: PCI bus error, PCI_STATUS[caa0]
  eth1: Tx timeout - resetting

The "tulip" driver works fine on this system (installed from CD on
another identical machine), but is not included in the netboot
image. Including this driver would solve the problem.

Output of lspci is:

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Ultra IIe
0000:00:03.0 Non-VGA unclassified device: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU]
0000:00:05.0 Ethernet controller: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc.  21x4x DEC-Tulip compatible 10/100 Ethernet (rev 31)
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV]
0000:00:0a.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc.  21x4x DEC-Tulip compatible 10/100 Ethernet (rev 31)
0000:00:0d.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c3)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: sarge
Architecture: sparc64