still struggling with ndiswrapper

[James Pifer]

I've tried getting my builtin wireless card in my laptop working before
and was close, but could never get it working. I would REALLY like to
use my laptop without being tied to my desk. Previously I could load the
drivers, using ndiswrapper, and get all the way up to loading it, but I
could never get an ipaddress. So I figured I would try again but this
time remove wep and see if can connect.

lspci shows me this:

02:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g
Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)

When I try to modprobe ndiswrapper the machine locks up hard. After a
reboot I see this in /var/log/messages:

Oct 27 15:09:45 kernel: ndiswrapper version 1.4rc4 loaded
(preempt=no,smp=yes)
Oct 27 15:09:45 kernel: ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,10/20/2004,
3.70.22.0) loaded
Oct 27 15:09:45 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:02.0[A] -> GSI 18
(level, low) -> IRQ 193
Oct 27 15:09:45 kernel: ndiswrapper: using irq 193

I also tried reinstalling ndiswrapper but still get the same thing. If
it's an IRQ problem, any suggestions on how to handle it?

Any other suggestions?

Thanks,
James