When I start my computer I want Network Manager to automatically connect to my home wifi which has a hidden SSID. Instead, I have to always press the NM applet, press Network Settings, press Connect to Hidden Network, choose my home wifi in the drop down menu and finally, press connect. If I close my laptop and later open it up again the wifi has disconnected and I have to redo all the steps again.
I have been living with this issue for a couple of weeks and so far Ive tried random things I could find in forums like reinstalling my network driver, reinstalling network manager, changing the powersave.conf value to "2", I also created a bash script using "nmcli connection up" that I would run on startup and it kinda fixes the problem but it only runs after boot and not if I close the laptop and open it up at a later time so its like a duct tape solution.
I THINK the problem has to do with network manager because when I press the NM applet and check Network Settings for my wifi, under the identity "tab" the box with "Connect automatically" is ticked which obviously doesnt work. Furthermore, I have disabled ipv6 in the ipv6 "tab" but under the "details" tab it still shows that I have an ipv6 address. If Ive properly disabled ipv6 I should not have an ipv6 address right? right?
I have no idea how to fix this but I really hope someone else does because its driving me nuts. Below is my inxi -Fxz.
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System:
Kernel: 5.4.0-47-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0
Desktop: Cinnamon 4.6.7 Distro: Linux Mint 20 Ulyana
base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Apple product: MacBookAir6,2 v: 1.0 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Apple model: Mac-7DF21CB3ED6977E5 v: MacBookAir6,2 serial: <filter>
UEFI: Apple v: MBA61.88Z.0103.B00.1708080653 date: 08/08/2017
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 37.0 Wh condition: 37.7/50.2 Wh (75%)
model: SMP bq20z451 status: Full
CPU:
Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-4260U bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Haswell rev: 1 L2 cache: 3072 KiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
bogomips: 16000
Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/2700 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800
3: 800 4: 800
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics vendor: Apple driver: i915
v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
resolution: 1440x900~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 5000 (HSW GT3)
v: 4.5 Mesa 20.0.8 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Haswell-ULT HD Audio vendor: Apple driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus ID: 00:03.0
Device-2: Intel 8 Series HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus ID: 00:1b.0
Device-3: Broadcom and subsidiaries 720p FaceTime HD Camera
driver: bdc-pci bus ID: 02:00.0
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-47-generic
Network:
Device-1: Broadcom and subsidiaries BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network
Adapter
vendor: Apple driver: wl v: kernel port: efa0 bus ID: 03:00.0
IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: tun0 state: unknown speed: 10 Mbps duplex: full mac: N/A
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 233.76 GiB used: 20.57 GiB (8.8%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Apple model: SSD SD0256F size: 233.76 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 27.38 GiB used: 8.00 GiB (29.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
ID-2: /home size: 199.21 GiB used: 12.56 GiB (6.3%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/sda4
ID-3: swap-1 size: 1.86 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda3
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 63.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 226 Uptime: 30m Memory: 3.79 GiB used: 1.80 GiB (47.6%)
Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.17
inxi: 3.0.38
Thats one way to "start looking for a solution" I did not expect.