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

2016-04-13 Thread Philip V
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

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

2016-04-14 Thread Philip V
Thank you, I checked, and the firmware /usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-2030-6.ucode is already installed by default (timestamped 2012-Jan, it is not new). On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 11:01 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 4/13/2016 7:42 PM, Philip V wrote: >> >> lspci gives >> 08:00

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

2016-04-14 Thread Philip V
r 13 15:25:09 localhost NetworkManager[1029]: rfkill0: found WiFi radio killswitch (at /sys/devices/pci:00/:00:1c.1/:08:00.0/ieee80211/phy0/rfkill0) (driver iwlwifi) Apr 13 15:25:09 localhost NetworkManager[1029]: (wlp8s0): new Generic device (carrier: OFF, driver: 'iwlwifi'

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

2016-04-14 Thread Philip V
this seems to be the right firmware >> >> https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/_media/en/users/drivers/iwlwifi-2030-ucode-18.168.6.1.tgz >> >> <https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/_media/en/users/drivers/iwlwifi-2030-ucode-18.168.6.1.tgz> >> >> >> >>> Am 14.04

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

2016-04-14 Thread Philip V
Output of dmesg / messages is found in a previous email (buried in the message thread) https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2016-April/158703.html Any advice? On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 10:42 PM, Philip V wrote: > With CentOS 7.2 a laptop wireless card is recognized in dmesg,

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

2016-04-15 Thread Philip V
639] iwlwifi :08:00.0: RF_KILL bit toggled to enable radio. (yes, I toggled the hardware switch, which seemed to only affect the Bluetooth again.) ifconfig does not report any wireless adapter. On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 11:12 PM, Brandon Vincent wrote: > On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 2:26 PM, Phi

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

2016-04-15 Thread Philip V
yes iwl2030-firmware was already installed. i have since installed wireless-tools and wavemon. Wavemon detects an interface wlp8s0. On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 4:03 AM, John Hodrien wrote: > On Fri, 15 Apr 2016, Philip V wrote: > >> Have not yet installed any extra packages. >

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

2016-04-19 Thread Philip V
Toshiba Satellite Pro P870 Part PSPLFU-039011 (I have the same symptoms as Tony reported.) On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 8:48 AM, Brandon Vincent wrote: > On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 5:00 AM, Tony Molloy wrote: >> So any ideas. > > I may have missed this but what model laptop are we talking about? > > Br