RTL8139 Cardbus Card fails to activate

[Lowell Gilbert]

Jan Christian Meyer <janchris at stud.ntnu.no> writes:

> On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Lowell Gilbert wrote:

> > Separate parts of the system?  Hardware discovery and Cardbus?
> > Those seem about as closely related as any two features could be...
> 
> I don't find this to be obvious at all, but it's good that someone does.
> May I trouble you to shed some light on the matter, or provide me with a
> reference?

What's unclear, exactly?  That hardware discovery and Cardbus
functionality are closely related?  Or some specific aspect 
of one of those?