[CentOS] CentOS 7 does not pick up my atheros wireless

Tue Sep 30 22:49:35 UTC 2014
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Martes
<mailinglistmember at mgwigglesworth.net> wrote:
> Greetings everyone.
>
> I just had to remove the base kernel, and install kernel-plus, then restart.
>
> i.e. "yum -y remove kernel* && yum -y install kernel-plus*"
>
> I now see the wireless-n card in ifconfig -a :
>
> wlp8s5: flags=4098<BROADCAST,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
>         ether 00:1b:2f:37:02:46  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
>         RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
>         RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
>         TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
>         TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

You do not have to uninstall kernel. The distro kernel and kernel-plus
can coexist on the system. But if you want to keep using kernel-plus,
edit the /etc/sysconfig/kernel file to make it the default:

DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel-plus

Akemi