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I'm trying to reuse an old Asus EEE "a-la-RaspberryPi", as a small, single task unit. Since I am familiar with Fedora, I have installed Fedora 27 on it via VNC (the default graphical installer is too big for the EEE screen), but I did not install any desktop environment (I don't need it, plus even LXDE would have required more disk space than the entire size of the EEE).

During the installation I was able to connect to the Internet wirelessly (after having configured from the installer the SSID and PWD for my home network).

However, with the installed system, I am not:

[mac@octoserver ~]$ nmcli

enp3s0: connected to enp3s0

    "Qualcomm Atheros Attansic L2 Fast Ethernet"

    ethernet (atl2), 00:1F:C6:ED:3B:D9, hw, mtu 1500

    ip4 default

    inet4 192.168.0.131/24

    inet6 fe80::26b6:a207:c3f7:8c89/64



lo: unmanaged

    "lo"

    loopback (unknown), 00:00:00:00:00:00, sw, mtu 65536



wlp1s0: unmanaged

    "Qualcomm Atheros AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (AW-GE780 802.11bg Wireless Mini PCIe Card)"

    wifi (ath5k), 00:15:AF:92:4E:2E, plugin missing, hw, mtu 1500



DNS configuration:

    servers: 192.168.0.1

    interface: enp3s0

The plugin missing is in bright red in the console, but I haven't been able to google or dnf anything up on what that is supposed to be... ath5k seems to be an enabled module in my kernel, and I could not find any "plugin" package for nmcli in the repos...

Also confusing for me is the following:

[mac@octoserver ~]$ nmcli radio wifi

enabled

[mac@octoserver ~]$ nmcli device wifi list

[mac@octoserver ~]$ 

The radio [of a device, I guess] is ON but there is no device?!

Any idea on what is going on?

For completeness:

[mac@octoserver ~]$ lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 04)

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 04)

00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 04)

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)

00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 04)

00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 04)

00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 04)

00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 04)

00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 04)

00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 04)

00:1d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 04)

00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 04)

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d4)

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 04)

00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 04)

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 04)

01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)

03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros Attansic L2 Fast Ethernet (rev a0)

You are probably missing the NetworkManager-wifi package.

# dnf install NetworkManager-wifi

The solution is also very valid on CentOS 7, it is sufficient to replace dnf with yum:
$ sudo yum install NetworkManager-wi-fi.
Thank you @fpmurphy