I found this report of the same problem:
http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/459/2000/8/0/4224877/
(no followups)

Toby


Toby Thain wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've never been able to boot my SS1+ with the Sun SCSI/10BaseT card in
> it. It panics the kernel on detection (after printing the "esp1" line -
> boot log not handy but will supply if anyone cares).
> 
> However, booting SunOS 4 first (e.g. from CD) and warm rebooting into
> NetBSD prevents the panic (detects card, boots, and works perfectly). Is
> something not being initialised on the card by NetBSD???
> 
> I'd really like to get this card working.
> 
> Toby