I had to resort to installing kernel 2.6.18 to allow ndiswrapper to work. Doing this also fixed my laptop battery meter (Acer Ferrari 4005 laptop).
-- ndiswrapper/broadcom fails in recent kernels https://launchpad.net/bugs/42466 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
