It's a bug in the PnP patches for the driver - it tries to register its ioports twice. ** Changed in: irda-utils (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: irda-utils => linux-source-2.6.15 Binarypackagename: irda-utils => None -- Irda: nsc-ircc needs module options to work correctly https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/21025