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amranu

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Registered: 2008-09-25

Posts: 94

Belkin wireless router causing kernel panics

Whenever I connect to my family's Belkin wireless n router, after several minutes it causes a kernel panic randomly. After a hard reset, no wireless tools are able to find the network. Normally I'm only here for a few days so it doesn't effect me too much .

There doesn't appear to be anything noticable in dmesg.

Note that I've been able to reproduce this running Debian Sid with kernel 2.6.26, and using 2.6.25 did not solve the kernel panics, but it was still able to see and connect to the network after reset. I am unsure what is causing this, all I know is it happens everytime I come home, and the problem seems to fix itself after I leave and come back.

My wireless card is an intel 4965

dmesg | grep "iwl"
iwl4965: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN driver for Linux, 1.2.26ks
iwl4965: Copyright(c) 2003-2008 Intel Corporation
iwl4965: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN
iwl4965: Tunable channels: 11 802.11bg, 13 802.11a channels
phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-4965-rs'
firmware: requesting iwlwifi-4965-1.ucode
Registered led device: iwl-phy0:radio
Registered led device: iwl-phy0:assoc
Registered led device: iwl-phy0:RX
Registered led device: iwl-phy0:TX

Seems the problem might be with the n connection?

Last edited by amranu (2008-10-04 00:28:08)

iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: Belkin wireless router causing kernel panics

The router is not causing the panic, the panic is caused by the driver. Please file a bug upstream with the driver maintainers