RHEL 8.3 - Wifi

Latest response

Hey guys,

I am new to RHEL 8 for workstation. Hope to get advice on how I can resolve the issue of not able to turn on wifi and wifi setting indicates no wifi adapter found. Currently using ethernet now.

Thanks very much!

Attachments

PC
Log in to join the conversation

Responses

Christian Labisch's picture Guru 25345 points
12 November 2020 5:58 PM

Hi P (?),

Please check if the matching drivers for your wireless device are installed - and if they are not, install them ... if they are available. :)

Regards,
Christian

PC Community Member 30 points
13 November 2020 3:44 AM

Tks for replying Christian. I am on 8.1, and I am using an Intel Wireless-AC 9560, and when I do a 'dnf search wireless' cmd, I see 'iwl7260-firmware.noarch : Firmware for Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 726x/8000/9000 Series: Adapters'. Will this suffice or it must show exact wireless driver name?

I went ahead to install it, but still, no wifi adapter is found.

PC Community Member 30 points
13 November 2020 3:45 AM

Also, I can't even turn on wifi in the gui

Akemi Yagi's picture Guru 3501 points
13 November 2020 7:48 AM

Looks like this is a known issue with AC 9560:

https://access.redhat.com/solutions/5011071

PC Community Member 30 points
13 November 2020 8:44 AM

Hey Akemi,

Tks loads for the headsup that I ain't the only one in misery :)

PC Community Member 30 points
13 November 2020 8:52 AM

Hey Akemi, are you a RHEL sysadmin perhaps?

Christian Labisch's picture Guru 25345 points
13 November 2020 10:16 AM

Hi P (?),

Akemi is more than that ... he is one of the ELRepo maintainers - and he is one of our most valuable members ! :)

Regards,
Christian

Christian Labisch's picture Guru 25345 points
13 November 2020 10:10 AM

Hi Akemi,

Question : Can possibly a combination of your ELRepo kernel and the latest fedora wifi drivers and firmware solve P's problem ?
Unfortunately I cannot test this scenario, because I don't have an intel wireless device from the 9560 series - it's just an idea ... :)

Regards,
Christian

Akemi Yagi's picture Guru 3501 points
14 November 2020 8:41 AM

Hi Christian,

Generally speaking, ELRepo's kernels work only with RHEL (and its rebuilds). But things like firmware may be less OS-dependent, and what is available for Fedora might work. Like yourself, I cannot test it either. :(

Christian Labisch's picture Guru 25345 points
14 November 2020 8:46 AM

Thank you, Akemi ! :) Unfortunately I don't have any other idea that could help to solve P's problem.

Regards,
Christian

PC Community Member 30 points
15 November 2020 10:29 AM

Hi Akemi, Christian,

Tks so much for your quick responses ....Didn't know I am in the presence of gurus here ...haha :)

Had this same issue when I was using Fedora Server 33. I downloaded a wpa_supplicant, enable it and it worked! I will see how.

I am back to using Fedora 33 workstation for now, and setup a vmware for RHEL 7 server to play with it instead.

I am trying to learn RHEL to go for the sysadmin cert - will practising on Fedora 33 Workstation be just as good or I gotta really use the real stuff?

Christian Labisch's picture Guru 25345 points
15 November 2020 12:49 PM

You're welcome, P (?) ... really curious what the "P" stands for. :) Well, this is exactly what I'm doing - running
RHEL 8.3 in virtual machines on top of my fedora 33 workstation. But why vmware ? Running VMs using the
built-in KVM (libvirt/qemu) virtualization works perfectly fine out-of-the-box. Practicing for Sysadmin Cert
is indeed recommended to do be done with "the real stuff" - the two systems are different in many aspects.

Regards,
Christian