Re: Squeeze: cannot connect to Netgear 150N DGN1000B

[Laurentiu Pancescu <lpancescu@googlemail.com>]

Sorry for replying to myself.  I just installed the latest kernel from 
squeeze-backports (2.6.39) and wireless works fine now.  Probably a bug 
in 2.6.32 from stable - kernel oopses shouldn't appear in any case.


On 10/7/11 14:59 , Laurentiu Pancescu wrote:
> 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