Now it's up again so here comes lsmod and lspci

~% lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
nls_iso8859_1           3936  1 
vfat                   13824  1 
fat                    41760  1 vfat
binfmt_misc            11496  1 
speedstep_centrino      7892  1 
proc_intf               3908  0 
freq_table              4004  1 speedstep_centrino
cpufreq_userspace       4348  1 
cpufreq_ondemand        6140  0 
cpufreq_powersave       1632  0 
pcmcia                 22244  4 
video                  15972  0 
sony_acpi               5928  0 
pcc_acpi               11008  0 
ibm_acpi               17524  0 
button                  6480  0 
battery                 9988  0 
container               4320  0 
ac                      4676  0 
ipv6                  257888  9 
wlan_wep                6752  1 
usbhid                 31936  0 
spca5xx               322264  0 
videodev                9792  1 spca5xx
af_packet              21992  4 
ath_pci                60608  0 
ath_rate_onoe           8904  1 ath_pci
wlan                  118524  4 wlan_wep,ath_pci,ath_rate_onoe
ath_hal               133232  2 ath_pci
e1000                  85620  0 
yenta_socket           21344  0 
snd_intel8x0           32352  0 
snd_ac97_codec         74144  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss            52132  0 
snd_mixer_oss          19680  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                94696  3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              25060  1 snd_pcm
snd                    55012  6 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixe
r_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore              10016  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          9732  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
i2c_i801                8364  0 
i2c_core               22320  1 i2c_i801
piix                   10340  1 
shpchp                 99172  0 
pci_hotplug            33488  1 shpchp
intel_agp              22140  1 
agpgart                33608  1 intel_agp
irtty_sir               8544  0 
sir_dev                18828  1 irtty_sir
irda                  191936  2 irtty_sir,sir_dev
crc_ccitt               1920  1 irda
floppy                 58864  0 
rtc                    12472  0 
pcspkr                  3496  0 
nls_cp437               5600  2 
ntfs                  110512  1 
md                     47440  0 
dm_mod                 59420  1 
capacommoncap               7712  1 capability
nvram                   9096  0 
joydev                  9664  0 
tsdev                   7520  0 
evdev                   9344  1 
psmouse                21320  0 
mousedev               11288  1 
parport_pc             37252  1 
lp                     11144  0 
parport                36744  2 parport_pc,lp
ide_generic             1312  0 
ide_disk               20416  2 
ide_cd                 41700  0 
cdrom                  40220  1 ide_cd
fglrx                 237088  9 
ext3                  137256  2 
jbd                    60536  1 ext3
mbcache                 8356  1 ext3
unix                   28276  789 
thermal                13320  0 
processor              22452  2 speedstep_centrino,thermal
fan                     4388  0 
fbcon                  37504  0 
font                    8192  1 fbcon
bitblit                 5472  1 fbcon
vesafb                  6724  0 
cfbcopyarea             3808  1 vesafb
cfbimgblt               2912  1 vesafb
cfbfillrect             3488  1 vesafb
usb_storage            71936  8 
ide_core              129356  5 piix,ide_generic,ide_disk,ide_cd,usb_storage
ohci_hcd               21512  0 
uhci_hcd               32816  0 
ehci_hcd               32708  0 
usbcore               119000  7 usbhid,spca5xx,usb_storage,ohci_hcd,uhci_hcd,ehc
i_hcd
pcmcia_core            57984  2 pcmcia,yenta_socket
sd_mod                 17776  5 
scsi_mod              127552  2 usb_storage,sd_mod
bility              4648  0 


lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M)
USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M)
USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M)
USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB 2.0 EHCI
Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 81)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DBM LPC Interface Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DBM (ICH4) Ultra ATA Storage
Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus
Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem
Controller (rev 01)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 Lf
[Radeon Mobility 9000 M9] (rev 02)
0000:02:00.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1520 PC card Cardbus
Controller (rev 01)
0000:02:00.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1520 PC card Cardbus
Controller (rev 01)
0000:02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82540EP Gigabit Ethernet
Controller (Mobile) (rev 03)
0000:02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5211 802.11ab
NIC (rev 01)


and lastly the kernel

~% uname -a
Linux wake 2.6.10-5-686 #1 Fri May 20 14:31:01 UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux

Thank you for your quick interrest in this problem.

PS: It seems that some how internet and multimedia has to run at the same time
then ksoftirqd starts. Do not take that assumption to seriously though.