The system is unable to work with Centos 6.5 for connecting to the network. Currently downloading FC20 to see if that makes a diffference with the updated Kernel, or updated drivers.
Right now, when I do a centos install, the page that has the network config is greyed out, so the install isn't seeing the card. As a result, the NM/netowrk config from the System/Accessories menus doesn't function.
So I suspect I need to resolve the issues after doing the initial installation process.
The lspci gives:
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR8162 Fast Ethernet (rev 10) Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff1e Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16 Memory at c8500000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K] I/O ports at 3000 [size=128] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [58] Express Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [c0] MSI: Enable- Count=1/16 Maskable+ 64bit+ Capabilities: [d8] MSI-X: Enable- Count=16 Masked- Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting Capabilities: [180] Device Serial Number ff-6a-db-bd-00-8c-fa-ff Kernel driver in use: alx Kernel modules: alx
02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188EE Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01) Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 0191 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 I/O ports at 2000 [size=256] Memory at c8400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number 00-e0-4c-ff-fe-81-91-01 Capabilities: [150] Latency Tolerance Reporting
I'm unable to build on the system, as I can't access the netowrk to do the yum, aside from whatever is already on the initial dvds for centos 6.5.
I've taken a look at the elrepos tree/site to see what might be available for the solution.
I'm also looking to download/test other linux flavors to see ifubuntu/mint/etc have the same issue with the wire/wireless hardware/firmware.
Thoughts/Comments on how to resolve this would be helpful.