On Fri 07 Oct 2011 at 14:59:15 +0200, Laurentiu Pancescu wrote: > 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).
The Linksys WRT45GL could be connected to the Netgear and used as an AP. That should occupy you for the remainder of the afternoon. :) > 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). I don't usually like recommending people make drastic changes to their setup but you appear in the mood to experiment. Purge wicd and anything Network Manager related. Check wpasluppicant is still installed. Backup /etc/network/interfaces and alter it to have auto wlan0 iface wlan0 inet dhcp wpa-ssid WHATEVER wpa-psk WHATEVER_IS_ON_THE_NETGEAR in addition to the lo interface. Reboot and watch the boot messages. (Or do ifup -v wlan0). Check what wpa_supplicant does in /var/log/syslog. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111007140927.GD23580@desktop
