Dapper Flight 7 loses wireless card if ndiswrapper-utils is installed

Binary package hint: ndiswrapper-utils

Using a Linksys WMP-11 wireless-B PCI card in a Micron Millenia XI motherboard:
Install Dapper Drake Flight 7 on a clean hard drive.

Using Synaptic Package Manager, installed ndiswrapper-utils prior to installing Win2000 drivers (card not natively supported).

Install drivers LSIPNDS.inf and WMP11NDS.inf using ndiswrapper -i as I have done many times since 11/2005.

After adding ndiswrapper to /etc/modules , I restart the computer.

Using System -- Administration -- Networking, enable wlan0, set SSID, set to DHCP, activate wlan0. This is the only network interface visible.

System is working, can go on-line without problems.

Shutdown computer. After period of time, turn system back on. When gnome gui comes up, there is no internet connection. Checking Networking, there is no wlan0.

Using Synaptic Package Manager, remove ndiswrapper-utils and ubuntu-minimal, reinstall ubuntu-minimal, restart system. Reinstall ndiswrapper-utils; wlan0 is back and working. When system is restarted, I have to repeat this procedure to reconnect to the internet.

repeated 3 times using Dapper Drake 6.06 Beta 2 and 2 times using Dapper Drake 6.06 Alpha.

lspci before installing and after above procedure:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
0000:00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
0000:00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 4000 AGP 8x] (rev c1)
0000:00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Linksys, A Division of Cisco Systems WMP11v4 802.11b PCI card
0000:00:10.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic Crystal CS4281 PCI Audio (rev 01)

lspci after installing wlan0, shutting down, and turning back on:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
0000:00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
0000:00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 4000 AGP 8x] (rev c1)
0000:00:0e.0 2f90: Unknown device 7f6a:bc9d
0000:00:10.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic Crystal CS4281 PCI Audio (rev 01)

dmesg after installing wlan0, shutting down, and turning back on:
[4294667.296000] Linux version 2.6.15-21-386 (buildd@rothera) (gcc version 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)) #1 PREEMPT Fri Apr 21 16:43:33 UTC 2006
[4294667.296000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
[4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
[4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000e7800 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000040fdc00 (usable)
[4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 00000000040fdc00 - 00000000040ff800 (ACPI data)
[4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 00000000040ff800 - 00000000040ffc00 (ACPI NVS)
[4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 00000000040ffc00 - 0000000010000000 (usable)
[4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fffe7800 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
[4294667.296000] 0MB HIGHMEM available.
[4294667.296000] 256MB LOWMEM available.
[4294667.296000] On node 0 totalpages: 65536
[4294667.296000] DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0
[4294667.296000] DMA32 zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0
[4294667.296000] Normal zone: 61440 pages, LIFO batch:15
[4294667.296000] HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0
[4294667.296000] DMI 2.0 present.
[4294667.296000] ACPI: RSDP (v000 PTLTD ) @ 0x000f6ab0
[4294667.296000] ACPI: RSDT (v001 PTLTD RSDT 0x00000000 PTL 0x01000000) @ 0x040fdd5e
[4294667.296000] ACPI: FADT (v001 INTEL SEATTLE 0x00000000 PTL 0x000f4240) @ 0x040ff78c
[4294667.296000] ACPI: DSDT (v001 Intel Seattl 0x00000000 MSFT 0x01000000) @ 0x00000000
[4294667.296000] ACPI: BIOS age (1998) fails cutoff (2000), acpi=force is required to enable ACPI
[4294667.296000] ACPI: Disabling ACPI support
[4294667.296000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 20000000 (gap: 10000000:effe7800)
[4294667.296000] Built 1 zonelists
[4294667.296000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda5 ro quiet splash
[4294667.296000] Local APIC disabled by BIOS (or by default) -- you can enable it with "lapic"
[4294667.296000] mapped APIC to ffffd000 (01201000)
[4294667.296000] Initializing CPU#0
[4294667.296000] PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 32768 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Detected 398.433 MHz processor.
[ 45.689928] Using tsc for high-res timesource
[ 45.691837] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
[ 45.693364] Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[ 45.694888] Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[ 45.741404] Memory: 249396k/262144k available (1974k kernel code, 12148k reserved, 604k data, 288k init, 0k highmem)
[ 45.741422] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
[ 45.801587] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 797.39 BogoMIPS (lpj=398695)
[ 45.801724] Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
[ 45.801760] SELinux: Disabled at boot.
[ 45.801821] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[ 45.802195] CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[ 45.802228] CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[ 45.802267] CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
[ 45.802280] CPU: L2 cache: 512K
[ 45.802292] CPU: After all inits, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000040 00000000 00000000 00000000
[ 45.802362] mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
[ 45.802381] CPU: Intel Pentium II (Deschutes) stepping 01
[ 45.802399] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
[ 45.802415] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
[ 45.806180] checking if image is initramfs... it is
[ 49.557272] Freeing initrd memory: 6395k freed
[ 49.595323] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 49.595462] EISA bus registered
[ 49.595894] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9b3, last bus=1
[ 49.595921] PCI: Using configuration type 1
[ 49.597612] ACPI: Subsystem revision 20051216
[ 49.597623] ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
[ 49.597637] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
[ 49.597678] pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
[ 49.597696] PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support...
[ 49.597753] PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00f6ad0
[ 49.597770] PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0x9fda, dseg 0x400
[ 49.606766] PnPBIOS: 17 nodes reported by PnP BIOS; 17 recorded by driver
[ 49.606823] PCI: Probing PCI hardware
[ 49.606845] PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
[ 49.607474] PCI quirk: region 8000-803f claimed by PIIX4 ACPI
[ 49.607491] PCI quirk: region 7000-700f claimed by PIIX4 SMB
[ 49.607608] Boot video device is 0000:00:0d.0
[ 49.609793] PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/7110] at 0000:00:07.0
[ 49.611960] pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x370-0x371 has been reserved
[ 49.612006] pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
[ 49.612021] pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0x8000-0x803f has been reserved
[ 49.612037] pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0x7000-0x700f has been reserved
[ 49.613156] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
[ 49.613169] IO window: disabled.
[ 49.613181] MEM window: disabled.
[ 49.613192] PREFETCH window: disabled.
[ 49.615701] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
[ 49.615738] audit(1148021429.795:1): initialized
[ 49.616151] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
[ 49.616246] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 49.616490] Initializing Cryptographic API
[ 49.616512] io scheduler noop registered
[ 49.616540] io scheduler anticipatory registered
[ 49.616563] io scheduler deadline registered
[ 49.616610] io scheduler cfq registered
[ 49.616624] Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
[ 49.617317] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
[ 49.975757] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[ 50.068212] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303,PNP0f13] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
[ 50.080574] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
[ 50.082481] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[ 50.082708] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 48 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[ 50.083023] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[ 50.093452] 00:0e: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[ 50.096233] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size 1024 blocksize
[ 50.096510] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
[ 50.096528] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
[ 50.097120] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[ 50.099076] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
[ 50.099102] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 1
[ 50.099148] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 7
[ 50.099160] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 8
[ 50.099170] EISA: Detected 0 cards.
[ 50.099330] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 50.110243] IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[ 50.111275] TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[ 50.111573] TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[ 50.111861] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
[ 50.111874] TCP reno registered
[ 50.112224] TCP bic registered
[ 50.112256] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 50.112282] NET: Registered protocol family 8
[ 50.112293] NET: Registered protocol family 20
[ 50.112387] Using IPI Shortcut mode
[ 50.112912] Freeing unused kernel memory: 288k freed
[ 50.138322] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
[ 50.478992] vga16fb: initializing
[ 50.479013] vga16fb: mapped to 0xc00a0000
[ 50.678172] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x25
[ 50.678195] fb0: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device
[ 51.957270] Capability LSM initialized
[ 54.030020] PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1
[ 54.030067] PIIX4: chipset revision 1
[ 54.030078] PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
[ 54.030106] ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1000-0x1007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:DMA
[ 54.030151] ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1008-0x100f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
[ 54.030183] Probing IDE interface ide0...
[ 54.293716] hda: HDS728080PLAT20, ATA DISK drive
[ 54.548559] hdb: Maxtor 90432D3, ATA DISK drive
[ 54.599861] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
[ 54.600860] Probing IDE interface ide1...
[ 55.272226] hdc: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1212, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
[ 55.884296] ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
[ 55.929022] hda: max request size: 1024KiB
[ 55.937006] hda: 160836480 sectors (82348 MB) w/1719KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(33)
[ 55.937205] hda: cache flushes supported
[ 55.937769] hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 >
[ 56.003413] hdb: max request size: 128KiB
[ 56.004425] hdb: 8440992 sectors (4321 MB) w/256KiB Cache, CHS=8374/16/63, UDMA(33)
[ 56.004451] hdb: cache flushes not supported
[ 56.004952] hdb: hdb1 hdb2 < hdb5 >
[ 56.038338] hdc: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, UDMA(33)
[ 56.038372] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[ 56.894743] usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
[ 56.895790] usbcore: registered new driver hub
[ 56.905387] USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.3
[ 56.906547] PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:07.2
[ 56.906586] PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:10.0
[ 56.906616] uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: UHCI Host Controller
[ 56.907814] uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[ 56.907850] uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: irq 9, io base 0x00001020
[ 56.909116] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 56.909166] hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 57.320407] Attempting manual resume
[ 57.388873] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[ 57.409846] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
[ 74.804068] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[ 74.813908] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
[ 76.275237] piix4_smbus 0000:00:07.3: Found 0000:00:07.3 device
[ 77.239875] input: ImExPS/2 Logitech MX Mouse as /class/input/input1
[ 77.258759] Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
[ 77.364735] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[ 77.389355] PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:0d.0
[ 77.390682] NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module 1.0-8756 Wed Mar 29 14:26:26 PST 2006
[ 78.488135] PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:10.0 (0004 -> 0006)
[ 78.488164] PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:10.0
[ 78.488189] PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:07.2
[ 78.744277] Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
[ 78.756756] input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input2
[ 78.774684] agpgart: Detected an Intel 440BX Chipset.
[ 78.783410] agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xec000000
[ 79.039138] gameport: CS4281 Gameport is pci0000:00:10.0/gameport0, speed 2209kHz
[ 79.705138] ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
[ 80.736093] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
[ 80.750765] FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
[ 80.953623] parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
[ 80.953709] parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 1 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA]
[ 82.274855] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
[ 82.409368] ndiswrapper version 1.8 loaded (preempt=yes,smp=no)
[ 82.661283] Adding 1951888k swap on /dev/hda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1951888k
[ 82.938666] EXT3 FS on hda5, internal journal
[ 83.445174] md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
[ 83.445192] md: bitmap version 4.39
[ 84.632881] device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: <email address hidden>
[ 85.794019] cdrom: open failed.
[ 93.996779] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
[ 93.997001] EXT3 FS on hda7, internal journal
[ 93.997024] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[ 94.030378] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
[ 94.030541] EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
[ 94.030560] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[ 94.057286] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
[ 94.057511] EXT3 FS on hda6, internal journal
[ 94.057529] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[ 94.309602] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
[ 94.309828] EXT3 FS on hda3, internal journal
[ 94.309849] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[ 96.805992] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 109.316701] apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
[ 120.918098] hdc: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
[ 120.918128] hdc: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { AbortedCommand }
[ 120.918142] ide: failed opcode was: 0xec
[ 121.125395] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.8
[ 121.125417] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[ 121.125427] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 121.125461] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 121.185515] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8
[ 121.185535] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 121.235602] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[ 121.235655] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[ 121.235666] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.7
[ 140.639489] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 140.639918] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[ 140.640242] IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver

cat /proc/version after shutting down and restarting:
Linux version 2.6.15-21-386 (buildd@rothera) (gcc version 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)) #1 PREEMPT Fri Apr 21 16:43:33 UTC 2006

I can repeat all of this if it is needed. This is a computer I use for testing hardware and software.