Intel Wireless 3165 And CentOS 7.3

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I am trying to get wireless working on CentOS 7.3 with intel wireless 3165

ip link
1: lo: mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: eth0: mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP mode DEFAULT qlen 1000
link/ether b8:ae:ed:77:b3:3a brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: wlan0: mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT
qlen 1000
link/ether 34:02:86:cc:a0:79 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
4: virbr0: mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN mode DEFAULT qlen 1000
link/ether 52:54:00:70:8f:48 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
5: virbr0-nic: mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue master virbr0
state DOWN mode DEFAULT qlen 500
link/ether 52:54:00:70:8f:48 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 2280 (rev 21)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 22b1 (rev 21)
00:13.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Device 22a3 (rev 21)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Device 22b5 (rev 21)
00:1a.0 Encryption controller: Intel Corporation Device 2298 (rev 21)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Device 2284 (rev 21)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 22c8 (rev 21)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 22ca (rev 21)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 22cc (rev 21)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device 229c (rev 21)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Device 2292 (rev 21)
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 3165 (rev 81)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15)

I have created the ifcfg-ESSID and keys-ESSID files. but I dont even thing the wireless is loading. ifconfig does not report wlan0 or anything.

What am I missing to get wireless going?

Thanks,

Jerry