Return-path: Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]:10710 "EHLO mga01.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753820Ab2DWOJr (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:09:47 -0400 Subject: Re: laptop hangs while connecting to open wifi network From: "Guy, Wey-Yi" To: Oleksandr Yeremko Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 07:04:38 -0700 Message-ID: <1335189878.27767.175.camel@wwguy-huron> (sfid-20120423_160950_682581_B32A20B7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Oleksandr, On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 13:06 +0300, Oleksandr Yeremko wrote: > Dear All, > > I have Dell XPS laptop with Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1030 (rev 34). > > I use CentOS 6 with 2.6.32-220.7.1.el6.x86_64 kernel and iwlagn module. > > The problem is: > when I try to connect to any open wifi network my laptop hangs > (switching off is needed) and screen looses colors (like it is > switched to 256-colors mode). > > Does somebody have an idea how to solve this? > Could you provide more information, such as dmesg, lspci, ... also the configuration on your device, (open/secure, band, channel, ....) without more detail information, I am not sure how to help. Thanks Wey