[Ndiswrapper-general] loaddriver freezes HP NX7000/Mandrake 9.2 - enabling ACPI fixes it

[Martin W. <mar...@nt...>]

The default install of Mandrake 9.2 on the NX7000 doesn't enable ACPI. 
When calling loaddriver, it gets as far as printing out

   Calling startdriver ioctl

then the machine freezes (no response to keyboard/mouse, cursor stops 
blinking - only way out is to use the power button).

The only message in syslog (with debug output enabled) is

   ndiswrapper version 0.3 loaded

Enabling ACPI (by removing acpi=ht from the boot options) cures the 
problem, and then everything works fine.

Martin

P.S. As this is my first post, thanks to everyone who has contributed to 
  ndiswrapper.