Squeeze: cannot connect to Netgear 150N DGN1000B

[Laurentiu Pancescu <lpancescu@googlemail.com>]

Hi there,

my DSL modem died today after 10 years of service, so I bought a Netgear 
150N DGN1000B.  I cannot connect to it via wireless from my netbook 
running Squeeze (Linksys WRT45GL works, but it doesn't have a DSL modem).

I think the router is working, since I can connect to it very quickly 
with a Mac mini and an iPod Touch.  I tried with both 
network-manager-gnome and wicd, without any success.  I didn't see any 
unusual messages in the netbook logs, except "composite sync not 
supported".  After a few attempts to connect, I started to get kernel 
oopses due a NULL pointer dereference in the kernel and the machine 
wouldn't shut down properly after that.  That's a vanilla Squeeze 
install, no non-free packages, not even proprietary kernel drivers 
(EeePC 1005PE).

Any ideas?  Does anyone have Netgear routers here?

Thanks,
Laurentiu

P.S.  Please leave me in the Cc line when replying.