Tried running various Linux distributions on the XPS: elementary OS, Kali Linux and now Solus OS - all of them shipped with NetworkManager. In my current housing situation we have a hidden wifi, and I have no chance to change that. Interestingly, when I tried to connect to the hidden wifi using the nm-applet
, the connection always closed and I got no meaningful errors.
Additionally, I have a Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga S1 running Arch Linux and using netctl
for wifi, which had no issue whatsoever to connect to the hidden wifi; I did have to write the config file on my own though, but it only differed from a regular wpa connection by one line, namely Hidden=yes
.
What finally worked for the XPS was a set of commands to address NetworkManager's command line interface:
nmcli c add type wifi con-name <connect name> ifname <network device> ssid <wifi ssid>
nmcli con modify <connect name> wifi-sec.key-mgmt wpa-psk
nmcli con modify <connect name> wifi-sec.psk <password>
nmcli con up <connect name>