Re: NetworkManager / wireless on latest Centos7 installs

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On 11 Jun 2015 13:28, <johan.vermeulen7@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> ----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
> Van: "johan vermeulen7" <johan.vermeulen7@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Aan: "CentOS mailing list" <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Verzonden: Dinsdag 9 juni 2015 18:23:58
> Onderwerp: Re:  NetworkManager / wireless on latest Centos7
installs
>
>
>
> ----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
> Van: "m roth" <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx>
> Aan: "CentOS mailing list" <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Verzonden: Dinsdag 9 juni 2015 16:36:40
> Onderwerp: Re:  NetworkManager / wireless on latest Centos7
installs
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> Fred Smith wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 11:51:46AM +0200, johan.vermeulen7@xxxxxxxxxx
> > wrote:
> >> Hello All,
> >>
> >> on the latest installs I've done, on 2 different types of Latitude
> >> laptops, with 3 different wireless cars, of Centos7 and Mate desktop,
> >> it looks to me like NetworkManager is nog managing wireless.
> >> When clicking the nm icon in the top right corner, I'm not seeing
access
> >> points.
> >
> > FWIW, it seems to work properly on my Acer Aspire One netbook...
> > Out Of The Box, as the phrase goes.
>
> Dumb question: on my old Latitude, I have to make sure wireless is turned
> on with the little on the right side of the laptop. (When I bring it into
> work for conformation conformance, they turn it off, since they plug it
> in....)
>
>      mark
>
> Hello Mark & Fred,
>
> thanks for the reply's.
>
> See the last part of the my mail:
>
>
> The only difference I can think of, is that I now installed from
Centos7.1 minimal install media, and before from Centos7 DVD.
> But there I also select minimal install.
>
>
> And then I sent another mail saying:
>
>
> and that is indeed the case.
>
> When installing from Centos7 DVD, I end up with wireless managed by
NetworkManager
> When I install form the more recent 7.1 minimal install media ( not sure
of the exact name ) I end up with wireless not managed
> by NetworkManager.
>
> Further, for as long as I can remember, I always try to get rid of gnome
keyring by renaming:
>
> mv /usr/bin/gnome-keyring /usr/bin/gnome-keyring.bak
> mv /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-3 /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-3.bak
> mv /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon.bak
>
> but now this is preventing me from connecting to wireless networks.
>
> Greetings, Johan
>
>
> Hello All,
>
> this problem got bigger for me, and I could realy use some help.
> I now installed from a CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1503-01.iso, selecting minimal
install in Anaconda.
> After the install, the wireless interface shows up unmanaged by
NetworkManager.
>
> Before, I thought this could be due to using the minimal install media.
>
> [root@localhost ~]# nmcli d
> DEVICE TYPE STATE CONNECTION
> p4p1 ethernet connected p4p1
> lo loopback unmanaged --
> wlp1s0 wifi unmanaged --
>
> After installing the same way in Centos7, the wireless card is
automaticaly managed by NetworkManager as far as I
> can tell.
>
> lspci shows the right kernel module so this is not a driver issue. I use
the same wifi cards in all the machines.
>
> I'm sure there are ways to make this work without NetworkManager, but I
would like to have my users
> just click on the nm icon and select a wireless network.
>
> Can anyone shed some light on this?
>
> Many thanks.
> Johan
>
>
>

Note the section in the release notes about NetworkManager being split into
subpackages

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/7.1_Release_Notes/chap-Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-7.1_Release_Notes-Networking.html

You mentioned you were starting from minimal

yum install NetworkManager-wifi
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