I have left my machine at a terminal and just left it sit. When ndiswrapper is loaded with a 386 kernel nothing happens, however, when I let it sit with a 686 kernel I get a kernel panic.
I have a WUSB54Gv1 wirless card Hobbsee packaged version 1.17 for me, and it solves the problem. Its located here: http://revu.tauware.de/details.py?upid=2422 -- ndiswrapper usb dongle freezes X https://launchpad.net/bugs/18362 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs