I have the same problem with sis163u driver. It worked on Jaunty, but not on Karmic and Lucid. Loading the ndiswrapper modul and scanning for networks works fine, but when i start wpa_supplicant to connect to a WPA2 network the whole system freezes. On the console i get the following error:
Bug: soft lockup - CPU #0 stuck for 61s! -- ndiswrapper usb dongle freezes X https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/18362 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs