How do I set up WIFI with KDE Plasma

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How can I set up KDE Plasma with WIFI? Thanks for the help. Usually there is a WIFI icon in the taskbar tray.
However no icon in the tray. Appreciate the help.

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Previously, I tried the settings from the manual and the boot process locked up my system. I had to shutdown my laptop and did another boot to get back to the prompt. Can someone provide their configuration.nix settings.
Thanks.

Here is my configuration.nix:

{ config, pkgs, … }:

{
imports =
[ # Include the results of the hardware scan.
./hardware-configuration.nix
];

Use the systemd-boot EFI boot loader.

boot.loader.systemd-boot.enable = true;
boot.loader.efi.canTouchEfiVariables = true;

networking.hostName = “nixos”; # Define your hostname.
networking.wireless.enable = true; # Enables wireless support via wpa_supplicant.

networking.useDHCP = false;
networking.interfaces.enp0s31f6.useDHCP = true;
networking.interfaces.wlp3s0.useDHCP = true;

networking.networkmanager.unmanaged = [
“*” “except:type:wwan” “except:type:gsm”
];

services.xserver.enable = true;

services.xserver.displayManager.sddm.enable = true;
services.xserver.desktopManager.plasma5.enable = true;

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Recently I was helping a friend with a flaky wifi connection and discovered that iwd worked much better than wpa_supplicant. I started using iwd myself after that.

This is the only networking.* stuff in my config at the moment:

networking.networkmanager.enable = true;
networking.wireless.iwd.enable = true;
networking.networkmanager.wifi.backend = "iwd";
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PROBLEM SOLVED

Great buovjaga! WIFI now works in Plasma5. I have been working this problem for two weeks and could not find a solution. I was ready to give up till I received your message. Many thanks for helping me out.

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I tries this out on a whim, and while things work, there are gaps. Particularly, hidden networks are not connected to. I dogged around and added Hidden=true in config, but still result is same. If anyone faced this and found a solution, please lmk.

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Maybe you could start a new topic to draw attention to it. Possibly the wiki article could be expanded.

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Done!

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For completeness, I had the same issue recently (had not encountered it before). I found this alternative solution taht may be of interest…

networking.wireless.enable=true; did not work for me
networking.networkmanager.enable=true;

I left networking.networkmanager.enable=true; in the config and added.

environment.systemPackages = with pkgs [
connman
];

I know get the icon and ability to connnect (I did not try hidden SSIDs).

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This worked for me too, in KDE Plasma 6.

I added this “hack” to:

https://github.com/noksys/genoc/commit/5f42513102b47794c5b0cf1cd786b6f9a63b0721

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