Why Intel Wireless 8260 network card fails to initialize in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ?
Issue
- The required module
iwlwifi
is present in the system but the card doesn't seem to get load in the system and thus not able to use or configure wireless networking. - Cannot see any traces / logs from
dmesg
of card getting fail or something like that.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2
- kernel-3.10.0-327.10.1.el7.x86_64
- Intel Corporation Wireless 8260 [8086:24f3] Network Card
- NetworkManager-1.0.6-27.el7
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