Comment 43 for bug 194714

Same problem here. I am trying to use wmp54gs. In both Feisty and Gutsy ndiswrapper was rock solid with weeks uptime. This uptime was pushing 100's of GBs to my HTPC from my machine. It just worked. I re-installed Gutsy until this is resolved. I read the reason for the problems (Linux and GPL symbols in the kernel) but sadly one of the reasons I went with Ubuntu over Debian was its less zealous attitude towards proprietary drivers. It may be an evil but it is a necessary evil right now. So killing ndiswrapper really has hurt Linux desktop adoption among wireless users (historically a long standing problem group). A pity, really.