NetworkManager-wifi not installed

[ClifRa_Jones]

[Moderator: split this topic off from viewtopic.php?f=47&t=47246 as it really has no relationship to that]

This is interesting and obviously is still the case.

My real concern is this:

As a lot of us are now finding ourselves in WiFi only environments (not so much corporate but personal) I have found that the Minimal install does not install the drivers for WiFi. Now, maybe I did something wrong but I could not activate the WiFi on a minimal install even though the adapter was present and nmtui showed it properly configures. So to get WiFi support a GUI needed to be installed and Server with GUI is a darn large install to do a Net Install for when you really may or may not need a GUI.

Personally I prefer Mate or Mate w/Cinnamon as opposed to Gnome. Less bloated and much better for a GUI server. So minimal install and then do the rest myself is my preferred method.

[TrevorH]

There is a bug that means that NetworkManager-wifi is not installed.

[ClifRa_Jones]

There is a bug that means that NetworkManager-wifi is not installed.

That makes perfect sense but makes it hard to get past that point when all you have available is WiFi.

[TrevorH]

Mount the DVD iso image and install it from there? Download it from a mirror and put it on a USB stick and transfer it over? It's an upstream bug caused by the recent split of the monolithic NetworkManager package into numerous sub-packages. When RHEL fixes it, then CentOS will inherit the fix but I wouldn't expect it before 7.2 since it's an install time bug.

[loden888]

Thanks for this post, it saved me a lot of time.

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yum search networkmanager | grep wifi

This returns the package name, which in my case was NetworkManager-wifi.x86_64.

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sudo yum install NetworkManager-wifi.x86_64

Installs the extension.
Reboot.
The NetworkManager applet will now show available Wifi SSIDs.

[kmiklas]

Thanks for this post, it saved me a lot of time.

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yum search networkmanager | grep wifi

This returns the package name, which in my case was NetworkManager-wifi.x86_64.

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sudo yum install NetworkManager-wifi.x86_64

Installs the extension.
Reboot.
The NetworkManager applet will now show available Wifi SSIDs.

I also needed to issue this command:

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sudo service network-manager restart

See this post:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/528000/ ... ger-applet