Selecting a known Hidden Wi-Fi Network does not work: "Connect" button stays disabled
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| network-manager-applet (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
When i try to reconnect a previously connected Hidden Wi-Fi Network with WPA authentication, i cannot: the "Connect" button remains disabled ("grayed out"). I attach a dialog screenshot.
This happens under Ubuntu GNOME 16.04.1 and NixOS 16.03 with GNOME 3 desktop.
I am not completely certain, but i think i remember a similar behaviour under Debian (or possible under another version of Ubuntu?), except that at the point where the connection dialog just sits there with a disabled Connect button, i remember a prompt for password popping up.
As it is impossible to simply select and connect a previously used connection, i have to create a new one and re-enter the WPA password.
In fact, there is another issue that forces me in the first place to recreate the same hidden connection over and over: normally it should connect automatically, but almost every day, after i change a few networks or restart my home DSL modem, my computer stops connecting automatically to my hidden home Wi-Fi. However, i have not yet learned to reproduce this issue, so i am not yet submitting a bug report about it.
This is what i have found in the Internet that might be relevant:
* [Connect to Hidden...select Saved Secure Connection; Connect not possible](https:/
* [Wifi won't reconnect to hidden network](https:/
| Alexey (alexey-muranov) wrote | #1 |
