I have a similar problem, the card need to be ejected and reinserted to be activated. However, if the card was not present during boot, it doesn't work at all... The problem persists on feisty (kernel 2.6.20-3)
-- PCMCIA does not bring up eth1 during boot https://launchpad.net/bugs/45295 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
