> I can see this message on boot: > > rtl8139: port 0x400 in use Sometimes this message is misleading. In rtl8139match, if the call to rtl8139reset fails, the adapter isn't marked active but the port has already been allocated. That means rtl8139match can be called again for the same adapter, and this time the ioalloc will fail.
It might be helpful to print an error message in rtl8139reset so you can see that it failed. -- Richard
