CentOS

On a hunch I tried to completely re-install the OS. It failed completely, so I'm calling it a day

Okiedokie, I ran them; here's the results: [root@localhost ~]# lsmod | grep -i ath9k ath9k 136707 0 ath9k_common 36236 1 ath9k ath9k_hw 491188 2 ath9k_common,ath9k ath 33542 3 ath9k_common,ath9k,ath9k_hw mac80211 718956 1 ath9k cfg80211 632335 4 ath,ath9k_common,ath9k,mac80211 [root@localhost ~]# mo...

No output

After running those, I tried to read it but I couldn't make heads or tails of it. Here it is (rather lengthy): [shsmith@localhost ~]$ sudo modprobe ath9k [sudo] password for shsmith: [shsmith@localhost ~]$ dmesg [ 0.000000] microcode: microcode updated early to revision 0xa4, date = 2010-10-02 [ 0.0...

Hi Trevor, thanks for replying. I ran lsmod | grep ath9k and nothing came up. Next I ran sudo modprobe ath9k and it showed nothing. Then I ran ip link show and got this: [shsmith@localhost ~]$ ip link show 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default...

Hi, I just installed CentOS 7 on my Sony Vaio model VGN-NR260E laptop. Wireless LAN shows no NIC installed, but this laptop has had other Linux distros on it and wireless worked fine. I have read through all the information I have but I can't find anything about specs or what wireless it has. runnin...