On Friday 15 April 2016 15:37:26 Tony Molloy wrote: > On Friday 15 April 2016 13:48:58 Brandon Vincent wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 5:00 AM, Tony Molloy <tony.molloy at ul.ie> > > wrote: > > > So any ideas. > > > > I may have missed this but what model laptop are we talking > > about? > > > > Brandon Vincent > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > In my case they are both Dell E65xx fairly old but still > serviceable. > > E6500 has > > Network controller: Intel Corporation Ultimate N WiFi Link 5300 > > E6510 has > Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 > (rev 35) > > Tony > My workaround. On the Dell E6500 installed CentOS 7.0 from DVD ( development workstation ) wifi works updated to CentOS 7.1 ( 7.1503 ) using vault.centos.org wifi works updated to CentOS 7.2 ( 7.1511 ) using local repo wifi works So I ended up with a working 7.2. Hope this helps someone. Tony. -- Linux nogs.tonyshome.ie 2.6.32-573.22.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Mar 23 03:35:39 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux