Bug#439012: d-i: network not recognized on Sun nextra x1 / v100 + oops while unloading the wrong module

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 10:11:50PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
> Joey Hess wrote:
> > Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
> >   
> >> Etch installer, booted via tftp. If there were any changes regarding
> >> this in the daily Lenny build, please let me now - I have enough
> >> machines to give it a try.
> >
> > It has a new kernel version, it would be good to know if that fixes the
> > bug.
> >   
> First I have to say that I'm amazed that 2.6.21 booted at all on the
> v100, I didn't find a sparc machine where it booted successful yet.
> Removing and loading the dmfe module works well now, although it still
> doesn't have any function and needs to be blacklisted on a v100.

Does this error still occur with more recent kernel versions?

If you're running Etch, could you try to reproduce this bug
with the 2.6.24 based kernel added in 4.0r4?
http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/linux-2.6.24.html

Cheers,
        Moritz