[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#912576: network-manager: doesn't show nor autoconnect to hidden wifi

[Jiri Novak]

Hi,
after more discussion with thaller on NM, there actually seems to be a
bug, as the wifi is properly detected at one point and a while later it
is not in the cache - which seems might not been happening on the
version shipped with debian 9 and therefore would work even without
hidden=true (this is from log where i run it without that option)

....
Jul 17 10:10:49 LX-novak NetworkManager[1335]: <debug> [1563351049.8905]
device[0x55f38610a480] (wlan0): matched hidden AP D6:CA:6D:XX:XX:XX =>
"TH-W0200-management"
Jul 17 10:10:49 LX-novak NetworkManager[1335]: <trace> [1563351049.8905]
dbus-object[0x55f386103f10]: export:
"/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/AccessPoint/13"
Jul 17 10:10:49 LX-novak NetworkManager[1335]: <debug> [1563351049.8908]
device[0x55f38610a480] (wlan0): wifi-ap: added   D6:CA:6D:XX:XX:XX
"TH-W0200-management"               [ a  36  37% P W:0000 R:0188 ]   0s
sup:/12 [nm:/13]
....
Jul 17 10:10:49 LX-novak NetworkManager[1335]: <debug> [1563351049.9727]
device[0x55f38610a480] (wlan0): wifi-ap: updated D6:CA:6D:6D:13:B4
(none)                              [ a  36  37% P W:0000 R:0188 ]   0s
sup:/12 [nm:/13]
....

JN


On 7/17/19 12:03 PM, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 17.07.19 um 10:48 schrieb Jiri Novak:
>> Managed to debug it with someone else at #nm irc.
>>
>> the issue was that the wifi.hidden=yes works only on commandline, in
>> config file it needs hidden=true.
>> seems this version strictly needs this configured, the version shipped
>> with debian 9 did autoconnect even without hidden=true, now it needs to
>> be added with "nmcli connection modify uuid wifi.hidden=yes" or adding
>> line in the profile file under
>>
>> [wifi]
>> hidden=true
> Looping in the networkmanager mailing list.
>
> Not sure if this new behaviour of having to explicitly set hidden=true
> is deliberate or considered a bug (given that it breaks existing
> connection profiles)
>
>


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