I've been getting these NMI errors lately, but nothing as intense as
this from /var/log/messages a few days ago. The error flood did
actually drained a fully charged battery as I watched in awe via xterm
-e 'tail -f /var/log/messages' & trying different commands to stop it.

Nov 23 07:51:31 localhost kernel: Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown
reason b0 on CPU 0.
Nov 23 07:51:31 localhost kernel: You probably have a hardware problem
with your  RAM chips
Nov 23 07:51:31 localhost kernel: Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
Nov 23 07:51:31 localhost kernel: wifi0: rx FIFO overrun; resetting
Nov 23 07:51:33 localhost kernel: KERNEL: assertion (flags & MSG_PEEK)
failed at net/ipv4/tcp.c (1181)
Nov 23 07:51:33 localhost kernel: recvmsg bug: copied 57CDB04F seq 57CDB5F7
Nov 23 07:51:33 localhost kernel: KERNEL: assertion (flags & MSG_PEEK)
failed at net/ipv4/tcp.c (1181)
Nov 23 07:51:33 localhost kernel: recvmsg bug: copied 57CDB04F seq 57CDB5F7
Nov 23 07:51:33 localhost kernel: KERNEL: assertion (flags & MSG_PEEK)
failed at net/ipv4/tcp.c (1181)
Nov 23 07:51:33 localhost kernel: recvmsg bug: copied 57CDB04F seq 57CDB5F7
Nov 23 07:51:33 localhost kernel: KERNEL: assertion (flags & MSG_PEEK)
failed at net/ipv4/tcp.c (1181)
Nov 23 07:51:33 localhost kernel: recvmsg bug: copied 57CDB04F seq 57CDB5F7
Nov 23 07:51:33 localhost kernel: KERNEL: assertion (flags & MSG_PEEK)
failed at net/ipv4/tcp.c (1181)
Nov 23 07:51:33 localhost kernel: recvmsg bug: copied 57CDB04F seq 57CDB5F7
Nov 23 07:51:33 localhost kernel: KERNEL: assertion (flags & MSG_PEEK)
failed at net/ipv4/tcp.c (1181)

Checked both the ThinkWiki and Madwifi
blogs but there is a lot of trial and error stuff. Also, I found it
more convenient to install the madwifi driver for the wireless card (
Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC
(rev 01)) aka IBM ThinkPad 11a/b/g Wireless LAN Mini Express Adapter
(AR5BXB6) as i've had no luck with Ndiswrapper and the Lenovo windows
driver for 2 reasons; either the driver installed but no hardware
present or when it does find the driver with the PCI ID matching the
report from lspci -n

net5211 : driver installed
            device (168C:1014) present

a modprobe ndiswrapper or modprobe -r ndiswrapper results in ....

EIP: [<c041fa82>] resched_task+0x18/0x15f SS:ESP 0068:da609e38
<0>Kernel Panic - not syncing: Fatal exception

ThinkPad 11a/b/g Wi-Fi wireless LAN Mini-PCIe US/EMEA/LA/ANZ