> Interesting. How does a 3.2.y kernel behave with the ancient gentoo > userland? (Perhaps this is what you are planning to try later.)
Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ TP MII ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 100Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: MII PHYAD: 0 Transceiver: external Auto-negotiation: on Supports Wake-on: d Wake-on: d Current message level: 0x00000007 (7) Link detected: yes kernel is 3.2.15 taken out from apt-get linux-source-3.2 config is the same "gentoo" config i cannot get to boot linux-image-3.2.0-2-sparc64_3.2.16-1_sparc due to not being able to mount root fs i see this errors on kernel log [ 52.363317] sun_esp: Unknown symbol scsi_esp_register (err 0) [ 52.439003] sun_esp: Unknown symbol scsi_esp_intr (err 0) [ 52.509998] sun_esp: Unknown symbol scsi_host_put (err 0) [ 52.581304] sun_esp: Unknown symbol scsi_esp_template (err 0) [ 52.656890] sun_esp: Unknown symbol scsi_esp_unregister (err 0) [ 52.734804] sun_esp: Unknown symbol scsi_esp_cmd (err 0) [ 52.804672] sun_esp: Unknown symbol scsi_host_alloc (err 0) [ 53.004224] SCSI subsystem initialized i will continue to experiment with this kernel (hopefully debootstrap will finish soon) -- 1AE0 322E B8F7 4717 BDEA BF1D 44BB 1BA7 9F6C 6333 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org