NetworkManager treats a WiFi wireless card as a wired card making it unusable

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • NetworkManager sees a wireless NIC as being wired so does not expose the necessary options to connect to a wireless network, etc.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • NetworkManager

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