RTL8139 Carbus Card fails to activate

[Lowell Gilbert]

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

> I upgraded my laptop (Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook C4355) to 5.3 this week,
> and had the same problem. My card started working when i disabled ACPI. I
> don't have a sufficiently pointy hat to tell you _why_ this happened...
> It shouldn't be like that, separate parts of the system, mumble grumble,
> but in the spirit of empirical observation: It Worked For Me.

Separate parts of the system?  Hardware discovery and Cardbus?  Those
seem about as closely related as any two features could be...