ndiswrapper in modprobe.d causes system to semi-hang during login

I have the same problem with ndiswrapper and my linksys wusb54g. The problem only seems to affect gnome though (in edgy), for me at least.

If I leave the network card plugged in when I boot up and try to log into gnome, I just get a blank screen and gnome never loads. But if I boot up with the network card unplugged, gnome loads fine, and I can then plug in the card and it will connect to the network. Everything works fine in gnome after that until I log out and try to log back into gnome.

I have fluxbox installed as well, and it has no issues whether or not I leave the card plugged in, but if I try to run a gnome terminal from within fluxbox if I boot with the card plugged in or log out and back in after I've connected, I just get a blank black screen. Other apps seem to work fine: xterm, firefox, gaim all have no problem.

After a bit of experimentation I found the problem. (my problem anyway) For the heck of it I decided to run an strace on gnome-terminal from inside fluxbox to see if I could find the exact spot where the program would hang for 5 minutes until it would finally decide to load.

It seemed to be hanging on connecting a socket to localhost. I tried to ping localhost and nothing.

Apparently the loopback interface wasn't added to /etc/network/interfaces during installation. I'm guessing this is because I skipped network setup during the install because I knew I had to install ndiswrapper and the linksys drivers before it would work. Adding:

iface lo inet loopback

to /etc/network/interfaces fixed the problem. Gnome now loads up just fine.

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