Seems to be a kernel issue. This <a href="http://www.ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-298903.html">thread</a> suggested trying a new kernel, so I built the dev kernel for edgy, and now I can hibernate and resume just fine. Of course nothing is that simple: with the new kernel, ndiswrapper doesn't work, but bcm43xx does-- reverse of my experience with 2.6.17. Still some small issues with bcm43xx not getting the right bitrate at startup, but anyway I can suspend now. Just for the record, I had tried suspend without ndiswrapper loaded and it didn't help, so that's not the issue. Currently running 2.6.20-6-ref-386 built per instructions <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelCustomBuild">here</a>.
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