----- Oorspronkelijk bericht ----- Van: "James Hogarth" <james.hogarth at gmail.com> Aan: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> Verzonden: Donderdag 11 juni 2015 19:59:39 Onderwerp: Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager / wireless on latest Centos7 installs On 11 Jun 2015 13:28, <johan.vermeulen7 at telenet.be> wrote: > > > > ----- Oorspronkelijk bericht ----- > Van: "johan vermeulen7" <johan.vermeulen7 at telenet.be> > Aan: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> > Verzonden: Dinsdag 9 juni 2015 18:23:58 > Onderwerp: Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager / wireless on latest Centos7 installs > > > > ----- Oorspronkelijk bericht ----- > Van: "m roth" <m.roth at 5-cent.us> > Aan: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> > Verzonden: Dinsdag 9 juni 2015 16:36:40 > Onderwerp: Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager / wireless on latest Centos7 installs > > Fred Smith wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 11:51:46AM +0200, johan.vermeulen7 at telenet.be > > wrote: > >> Hello All, > >> > >> on the latest installs I've done, on 2 different types of Latitude > >> laptops, with 3 different wireless cars, of Centos7 and Mate desktop, > >> it looks to me like NetworkManager is nog managing wireless. > >> When clicking the nm icon in the top right corner, I'm not seeing access > >> points. > > > > FWIW, it seems to work properly on my Acer Aspire One netbook... > > Out Of The Box, as the phrase goes. > > Dumb question: on my old Latitude, I have to make sure wireless is turned > on with the little on the right side of the laptop. (When I bring it into > work for conformation conformance, they turn it off, since they plug it > in....) > > mark > > Hello Mark & Fred, > > thanks for the reply's. > > See the last part of the my mail: > > > The only difference I can think of, is that I now installed from Centos7.1 minimal install media, and before from Centos7 DVD. > But there I also select minimal install. > > > And then I sent another mail saying: > > > and that is indeed the case. > > When installing from Centos7 DVD, I end up with wireless managed by NetworkManager > When I install form the more recent 7.1 minimal install media ( not sure of the exact name ) I end up with wireless not managed > by NetworkManager. > > Further, for as long as I can remember, I always try to get rid of gnome keyring by renaming: > > mv /usr/bin/gnome-keyring /usr/bin/gnome-keyring.bak > mv /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-3 /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-3.bak > mv /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon.bak > > but now this is preventing me from connecting to wireless networks. > > Greetings, Johan > > > Hello All, > > this problem got bigger for me, and I could realy use some help. > I now installed from a CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1503-01.iso, selecting minimal install in Anaconda. > After the install, the wireless interface shows up unmanaged by NetworkManager. > > Before, I thought this could be due to using the minimal install media. > > [root at localhost ~]# nmcli d > DEVICE TYPE STATE CONNECTION > p4p1 ethernet connected p4p1 > lo loopback unmanaged -- > wlp1s0 wifi unmanaged -- > > After installing the same way in Centos7, the wireless card is automaticaly managed by NetworkManager as far as I > can tell. > > lspci shows the right kernel module so this is not a driver issue. I use the same wifi cards in all the machines. > > I'm sure there are ways to make this work without NetworkManager, but I would like to have my users > just click on the nm icon and select a wireless network. > > Can anyone shed some light on this? > > Many thanks. > Johan > > > Note the section in the release notes about NetworkManager being split into subpackages https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/7.1_Release_Notes/chap-Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-7.1_Release_Notes-Networking.html You mentioned you were starting from minimal yum install NetworkManager-wifi James, I can't believe I mist that. Running transaction Installeren : 1:NetworkManager-wifi-1.0.0-14.git20150121.b4ea599c.el7.x86_64 1/1 Verifiëren : 1:NetworkManager-wifi-1.0.0-14.git20150121.b4ea599c.el7.x86_64 1/1 Geïnstalleerd: NetworkManager-wifi.x86_64 1:1.0.0-14.git20150121.b4ea599c.el7 Compleet! [root at madriaenssens ~]# nmcli d DEVICE TYPE STATE CONNECTION p4p1 ethernet connected p4p1 tun0 tun connected tun0 lo loopback unmanaged -- wlp1s0 wifi unmanaged -- [root at madriaenssens ~]# systemctl restart NetworkManager [root at madriaenssens ~]# nmcli d DEVICE TYPE STATE CONNECTION p4p1 ethernet connected p4p1 tun0 tun connected tun0 wlp1s0 wifi unavailable -- lo loopback unmanaged -- Thank you VERY much for your help. Greetings, Johan _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos