I am trying to get wireless working on CentOS 7.3 with intel wireless 3165
ip link 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP mode DEFAULT qlen 1000 link/ether b8:ae:ed:77:b3:3a brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 3: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT qlen 1000 link/ether 34:02:86:cc:a0:79 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 4: virbr0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN mode DEFAULT qlen 1000 link/ether 52:54:00:70:8f:48 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 5: virbr0-nic: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue master virbr0 state DOWN mode DEFAULT qlen 500 link/ether 52:54:00:70:8f:48 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 2280 (rev 21) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 22b1 (rev 21) 00:13.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Device 22a3 (rev 21) 00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Device 22b5 (rev 21) 00:1a.0 Encryption controller: Intel Corporation Device 2298 (rev 21) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Device 2284 (rev 21) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 22c8 (rev 21) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 22ca (rev 21) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 22cc (rev 21) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device 229c (rev 21) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Device 2292 (rev 21) 02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 3165 (rev 81) 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15)
I have created the ifcfg-ESSID and keys-ESSID files. but I dont even thing the wireless is loading. ifconfig does not report wlan0 or anything.
What am I missing to get wireless going?
Thanks,
Jerry