acpi=off

Ya know the thing that ticks me off about linux sometimes? If your hardware
is too old, forget about it. If your hardware is too new, forget about it.
Hopefully one day hardware vendors will step up to the plate and just make
their stuff work properly. Ya ya, learn how to hack the kernel. I just want
an OS that works and isn't proprietary is that so much to ask? Oh yeah. So
anyway, the reason I'm bitching is cuz my laptop's ethernet has been broken
with acpi enabled since 2.6 came out. :)