On Thursday 14 April 2016 03:42:50 Philip V wrote:
> With CentOS 7.2 a laptop wireless card is recognized in dmesg, but
> nonfunctional. Toggling the hardware wifi switch causes the
> Bluetooth icon to appear and disappear. The network configuration
> window shows the Wireless tab greyed out. Rebooting with the
> bluetooth enabled does not help. It appears the appropriate driver
> is iwlwifi, which is what works in Fedora and appears to be
> available and installed in CentOS.
>
> lspci gives
> 08:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N
> 2230 (rev c4)
>
I had similar problems installing 7.2 onto a couple of Dell E6xxx
laptops with
Intel Corporation Centrino Ultimate-N 5300/6300 cards. It lets me
configure the network at install time but when I boot there is no wifi
device.
Partial solution.
Laptop 1. ( install when 7.1 was latest release )
installed 7.1 no wifi
installed 7.0 wifi works
upgraded to 7.1 several months ago wifi works
upgraded to 7.2 when it was released wifi works
Laptop 2 ( install when 7.2 was latest release )
installed 7.2 no wifi
installed 7.0 wifi works
upgraded to 7.2 ( last weekend ) no wifi
Any ideas.
Regards
Tony
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