I found the problem, it wasn't related to Debian's 2.6 kernel after all, but pcnet just didn't work on a 32-bit host. I'm committing a fix.
On 6/28/07, Andreas Färber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So maybe it's a more general problem with interrupt handling? Lance complains about timeouts, too, and so did DHCP during installation.
I think floppy driver on Sparc Linux is broken.