[Ndiswrapper-general] Kernel panics upon modprobe

[Nick M. <dar...@gm...>]

I seem to be having some trouble with ndiswrapper 1.22.  Yes Giri, I
have read the wiki.  When I modprobe ndiswrapper it causes a kernel
panic.  I checked with the Linux guys to make sure it wasn't a kernel
issue.  Alan Cox himself confirmed that everything looked alright from
my log files.  When I modprobe ndiswrapper I get...

Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task

That message appears several times over and then the system reboots.
The same thing occurs with acpi=noirq and acpi=off.  I am using Arch
Linux 0.72 with kernel 2.6.17.8 and both the kernel and ndiswrapper
were compiled with GCC 4.0.3.  Any help, ideas, suggestions would be
appreciated.  Thank you for your time.