This is just a guess, and I'm relatively new to Debian, but might the difference in kernal behavior be related to the fact that the ndiswrapper module is part of the Mandriva compile process? That module could have made some ndis code available to their kernel which our's lacks.
Just my two cents, Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
