How to access hidden wifi networks (hiddenSSID’s):
Acer Laptop corei5 16Gb ram intel graphics and audio:
I think the above pretty much says it I have newly loaded Mandriva load went absolutely smooth no issues whatsoever. The only one is that I can’t seem to find out how to get onto a hidden network wifi access point.
Thank you kindly for any advice, I am a linux virgin been running mint for 4 months daily driven, Fedora for a bit before that.
If the wifi network is hidden you will have to cofigure it manually. Right click the wifi icon in the task bar and select configure network connections, this will open a dialog box and you can add a wifi network then enter the SSID and password from there. once connected i think DHCP does the rest.
So I right clicked on the wifi symbol and it opened a dropdown menu, I then left clicked on “Configure Network Connections” but, I am unable to find where to add a network or an SSID. The only thing I see is my home connection from yesterday afternoon, I have tried right clicking in the empty space but that does nothing, I can’t find anything that would “add” a network…
Thank you… Stupidly though… I was so fixated on the blank open box… That I did not see the scroll bars on the bottom and side denoting that I was not seeing the full page…
When I eventually scrolled down I found the “+” sign…
I am on the network and all is working thank you for your patience…
I feel like a dweeb wearing glasses that aren’t clean…
Do not know if I’m a dweeb, but my glasses are clean…
Again, thank you all for the help.
I have another question if someone could help me, I have been using mint for the past 4 months. Under mint (on my desktop) the other internal drives once plugged back in after installation are automatically detected.
Does this also happen inside OM? Or do I physically need to add them under /mnt/… inside fstab as in Fedora?
I had my drives showing up under “other” and could not write to them before adding them to the fstab file.
Also, I have an Nvidia GPU, how does install work on OM? I did see an Nvidia tab in the welcome screen somwhere so I am assuming that I do not need to go to the rpm fusion site to install, OM handels this for me??
Glad you got it working. You should start a new topic for each new question It helps people to find things that have already bean raised and answered more quickly. for the nvidia card question start a new topic and and using the konsole app post the result of
sudo lshw -class display
if lshw is not installed you can install it with
sudo dnf install lshw
lshw lists hardwar, -class display will only list you gpu and relevant info; gpu name, are there drivers already loaded etc
You will need to decide if you want open souce or proprietary drivers. This may depend on use case so add that to the description as well, If your not sure, see how the open source work first and we can go from there.
Ok understood, I’m just trying to gain some information though on how the system would work, I edit a lot of videos so can not afford for my system to be down to much.
I trying to gain some insight into how Nvidia cards are handled as I use DaVinci Resolve and this requires Nvidia and its proprietary drivers under linux rather than an AMD card, under Fedora there was a lot of faffing around to get the proprietary driver installed which is what DaVincie would require.
The harddrive question was so that I know what route I need to prepair for when I make that transition.
I also do a lot of cad as 3d printing is another one of my “hobbies”.
The info would help me gauge how much time I might need to set aside for installation and setup. Barring anything unforseen as I am still pretty much a linux virgin…
Installing the prorietary driver is quite simple. and can be done from the OM welcome app. I don’t really understand the driver question but will have a look in the new thread. See you there
I have newly loaded Mandriva load went absolutely smooth no issues whatsoever. The only one is that I can’t seem to find out how to get onto a hidden network wifi access point.
