09-21-2020, 05:05 PM
You may have to disable Network Manager. I've used at least one Linux distru where Network Manager would override my manual settings.
You also might be able to set your SSID directly with ifconfig.
I would encourage you to install NetBSD, but I'll have to warn you that the inbuilt WiFi doesn't play well with NetBSD. Yes, it works, but it's incredibly frustrating. Using the wifi for random amounts of time will deadlock the whole machine. You might get 30 seconds or 10 hours of runtime, you never really know. I haven't tried an external WiFi or Ethernet adaptor yet; but I've heard that it works fine like that.
You also might be able to set your SSID directly with ifconfig.
I would encourage you to install NetBSD, but I'll have to warn you that the inbuilt WiFi doesn't play well with NetBSD. Yes, it works, but it's incredibly frustrating. Using the wifi for random amounts of time will deadlock the whole machine. You might get 30 seconds or 10 hours of runtime, you never really know. I haven't tried an external WiFi or Ethernet adaptor yet; but I've heard that it works fine like that.
