MDK 10 O, Kernel 2.6

Ok, so I'm trying hard to install a Linksys G wireless card on my laptop and I'm trying the ndiswrapper method atm. Here's where I am at:

ndiswrapper - l returns 'lsbcmnds present' which I think is a good thing (lsbcmnds is the inf file on the windows driver CD for the card)

but if I then use modprobe ndiswrapper the computer just freezes now. I don't even have mouse control. A few days ago I could use the command but now I can't. Also, if my ethernet modem is connected to eth0, where would it look for my wireless? Where would it go? what exactly is eth0? Thanks for any help, and I'm a newb so keep it simple please lol

I just started having the same problem. No clue what is cuasing it, trying it on fresh linux installs and it's occuring, though it worked multiple times earlier. *sigh*

try using lsmod to see what modules are loaded at boot time
in terminal type
cd /sbin
./lsmod
After loading the modules with modprobe ndiswrapper (if you can) type dmesg in the terminal
post the output it gives you.

Yeah, the problem is modprobe ndiswrapper completely freezes my computer, no CTRL+ALT+DELETE/CTRL+ALT+1, mouse movement... nothing. I have to reset it. Scary thing to see with Linux. :P

Have a look in your syslog and see what is happening when you modprobe ndiswrapper. Several people have see kernel panics with the 0.9 version of ndiswrapper and if that is what is happening to you, try dropping back to version 0.7.

If I actually did ndiswrapper -m, it would cause a kernel panic on reboot due to the line added to the /etc/modprobe.conf file, so I removed that in recovery mode and could successfully reboot afterwards. I'm not sure what started happening and why ndiswrapper wasn't working, but I decided just to install FC1 instead of FC2 because I knew I had it working on there before, and I had ndiswrapper working withing 2 minutes of my completed install. =/

-Chris