[Ndiswrapper-general] total lockup when idle

[<dan...@gm...>]

Hi, i have a truemobile 1300 on my inspirion 8500 laptop that i am using
together with wpa_supplicant, and wpa encryption. Everything is running jus=
t
fine, seriously, until i stop using it. Maybe i go for dinner, or to sleep,
and when i come back my computer is _totally_ screwed (*1). HOWEVER (!!) if
i let a "ping <hostname>" on over the night, this problem goes away. I have
tried this over and over, so I'm sure that a ping solves it, and EVERY time
i don't do this, i HAVE to turn of my computer (holding the power-off
button). I have also tried to patch my kernel with 16k stack, but nothing
happened. I blamed NFS for a while, but it wasn't that either.

I am using ndiswrapper 1.5 (and wpa_supplicant 0.4.7) -- the latest on my
gentoo box.

(*1) By this i mean that when i run a command nothing happens. Like, i go t=
o
console X, login, and the write "ls", and nothing happens. I try to reboot
(CTRL+ALT+DEL), and it writes some few things, but then goes to sleep again=
.

/D