Wifi not shown

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Giulio.Ortali
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Wifi not shown

Post by Giulio.Ortali » 2014/10/12 09:42:49

Hi to all,

i am a new CentOs (and in general Linux) user and i'm a complete novice.
So, i've installed CentOs and ethernet connection is working well but i have no option for the wifi connections, can someone help me? :oops:

Thank you anyway

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Re: Wifi not shown

Post by TrevorH » 2014/10/12 12:19:51

If you run ifconfig -a (or ip link if ifconfig is not installed) then does the interface show up in the list? If it does then it just needs to be configured but if it doesn't then you are missing a driver for it and need to use lspci -nn | grep -i net to identify the chipset in use. Once you have that then you can search for a driver for it - ELRepo package a number of the more popular drivers as kmod- packages so take the pci vendor/device id pairing to their web site and check if they have something.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
Use the FAQ Luke

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