Verified on gentoo-basic-1.4-20030806 Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM/CA/CAM Ethernet Controller (rev 3) built in nic on Toshiba Satellite 2805-S402 Both Intel drivers (eepro100 and e100) are compiled as modules and competeing for resources on hotplug initialization, causeing hotplug to stall and the "default" boot process to fail (gentoo nohotplug boots normal however and either modules load just fine) Suggest putting one driver (possibly eepro100) in /etc/hotplug/blacklist or inclueding only one driver module for that card so that this issue can be resolved and hotplug runs normaly. Thank you.
Both modules should be able to successfully load. Only one will actually bind to the device. No hotplug process should stall. If so, please test against the latest hotplug package and if it still happens please reopen the bug.