Wlp4s0 keeps disconnecting

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1

it’s not a hardware issue — wifi works fine on windows 11 dualboot and every other device connected to the router. why is this occuring on NixOS

2

You have provided no information at all, it’s impossible to answer your question.

  1. What is your network configuration?

  2. Are you using NetworkManager or wpa_supplicant?

  3. What do the logs show?

3

it was something with 802-11-wireless-security.psk-flags not being equal to 0, which was fixed with nmcli connection modify hidden_wifi 802-11-wireless-security.psk-flags 0

4

On boot everytime it fails to connect until systemctl restart NetworkManager with the systemctl status NetworkManager output of:


Dec 03 15:35:09 nixos NetworkManager[1121]: <warn>  [1764794109.2809] device (wlp4s0): wifi-scan: active scanning for networks due to profiles with wifi.hidden=yes. This makes you trackable
Dec 03 15:35:17 nixos NetworkManager[1121]: <warn>  [1764794117.3554] device (wlp4s0): no secrets: No agents were available for this request.
Dec 03 15:35:17 nixos NetworkManager[1121]: <warn>  [1764794117.4189] device (wlp4s0): Activation: failed for connection 'hidden_wifi'
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so I’ll try installing hyprpolkitagent in environment.systemPackages to see if that works as per chatgpt AI recommendation.