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How to Enable Wi-Fi on Oracle Linux
Oracle Linux 7.6 showing "No Wi-Fi" device found.
Can you please help with this one. How to get this working.
Answers
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Hello,
Being a primarily "server" os, OL doesn't support many wifi devices, especially if you're running the UEK kernel. You may try to switch to the Redhat-compatible kernel and see if it detects your card...
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In addition to Alex's reply, does your OL system even HAVE a wifi card? Is this OL system a physical computer or a virtual machine? If a VM, the host system having a wifi interface does not necessarily mean the VM will.
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Thanks for your response Alex. Yes the RHEL/Ubuntu does detect the card.
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Thanks for your response Steven,
We are having a powerful Laptop. It has a WiFi card and is being detected when we try Ubuntu and RHEL on that.
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So the UEK just doesn't have a driver included for this card - Oracle as a general rule avoids bundling unnecessary consumer-grade drivers in UEK.
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Could you please help with the name of the driver...
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Are you installing on bare metal, or is there any kind of virtualization involved?
What is your hardware. What Laptop, brand and model?
Please check your output of the "lspci -v" command and post your wifi adapter information. it will also show if there is a driver loaded.
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Dell Precision 7740, core i9 vPro
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According to https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/overview/cp/linuxsystems and https://access.redhat.com/ecosystem/hardware/3979731 the hardware is certified for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0. Hence Oracle Linux 8 will work too, at least when using the included Red Hat Kernel (RHCK).
The model ships with various Wifi adapters build to order. Which option do you have? If you would like to use it with previous versions of Oracle LInux, please answer the other questions regarding virtualization and the lspci output.
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On our desktop, we can see the wifi interface and the wifi works during Oracle Linux 8.3 installation, but after installation and boot into it, the wifi interface does not have IP set up for it. How to fix it?
