I have rebooted now. This is the powertop output:

     PowerTOP version 1.10      (C) 2007 Intel Corporation

Cn                Avg residency       P-states (frequencies)
C0 (cpu running)        (78.1%)         1.80 Ghz     0.0%
polling           0.0ms ( 0.0%)         1.60 Ghz     0.0%
C1                0.1ms ( 0.1%)          800 Mhz   100.0%
C2                1.2ms ( 3.8%)
C3                3.2ms (18.0%)

Wakeups-from-idle per second : 91.8     interval: 5.0s
no ACPI power usage estimate available

Top causes for wakeups:
  57.6% (250.0)    NetworkManager : et131x_open (et131x_error_timer_handler) 
  11.2% ( 48.8)           firefox : futex_wait (hrtimer_wakeup) 
   7.9% ( 34.4)          icecast2 : do_nanosleep (hrtimer_wakeup) 
   5.4% ( 23.4)       <interrupt> : HDA Intel, 0000:05:09.0 
   2.4% ( 10.6)             skype : schedule_timeout (process_timeout) 
   2.3% ( 10.0)             skype : do_nanosleep (hrtimer_wakeup) 


This is the top output:

top - 19:18:56 up 26 min,  3 users,  load average: 0.78, 0.87, 0.80
Tasks: 140 total,   3 running, 136 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
Cpu(s):  5.1%us,  8.9%sy,  0.0%ni, 84.9%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  1.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   1024988k total,   929088k used,    95900k free,    10256k buffers
Swap:  1124540k total,     8140k used,  1116400k free,   235916k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
    4 root      15  -5     0    0    0 R  8.2  0.0   1:40.41 ksoftirqd/0        
 5256 root      20   0  356m 119m  25m S  5.8 11.9   1:34.27 Xorg               
 6111 sarek     20   0  296m  35m  14m R  1.4  3.5   0:09.42 gnome-terminal     
 6278 sarek     20   0  529m  85m  26m S  1.0  8.5   0:15.54 firefox            
 4920 chipcard  20   0 27452 1664 1088 S  0.7  0.2   0:08.00 chipcardd4         
 5714 sarek     20   0  232m  25m 8376 S  0.7  2.6   0:12.66 compiz.real        
 5844 sarek     20   0  208m  17m 8984 S  0.7  1.7   0:02.92 gnome-netstatus    
 5851 sarek     20   0  192m  10m 8356 S  0.7  1.0   0:03.52 multiload-apple   

I'll try to check the module sourcecode for the cause of the problem,
but as I am not the greatest programmer of all times this might not be
successful ;-)

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high cpu usage with et131x
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/308705
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