[CentOS] CentOS 7.2 laptop wireless Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 2230 (rev c4)

Thu Apr 14 03:01:53 UTC 2016
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

On 4/13/2016 7:42 PM, Philip V wrote:
> lspci gives
> 08:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 2230 (rev c4)
>
> 1. How do I get this working?  I am happy to work with command line tools.
>
> 2. Are there other packages I need? I installed wireless-tools, and
> tried to fiddle with iwconfig and NetworkManager to no avail. iwconfig
> does seem to interact with the wifi device.
>
> 3. Is there documentation I should be following to
> understand/troubleshoot networking support?
> https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless  does not document the
> iwlwifi driver.


https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/iwlwifi

suggests you might need to get a firmware tarball for that card, and 
copy the appropriate iwlwifi-*.ucode file to /lib/firmware or something.



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