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@xxxxx>
>
> wrote:
> > > So any ideas.
> >
> > I may have missed this but what model laptop are we talking
> > about?
> >
> > Brandon Vincent
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> 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.
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