[Ndiswrapper-general] Broadcom 54g - Gentoo 2004.2 - SMP - System Freeze

[Sean R. <def...@ho...>]

I have been experiencing system freezes using ndiswrapper and my =
broadcom 54g card with the windows drivers from HP (bcmwl5a).  I am =
currently running Gentoo with the 2.6.8 kernel with SMP enabled.  I've =
heard recommendations that turning off SMP seems to fix the problem, but =
I really don't want to lose the ~20% performance difference by disabling =
SMP just to use my wireless card.  The freezees are intermittent, =
sometimes immediately after running modprobe ndiswrapper and sometimes I =
can work for a couple hours before seeing any issues.  The system =
completely hangs, no response at all, all that can be done is rebooting =
the computer.  Does anybody have any suggestions outside of disabling =
SMP in my kernel (which I will do if I must I suppose).