Bug 452449

Summary: Hotspot functionality not enabled while connected to a wifi network
Product: [Plasma] plasma-nm Reporter: Kearney <191615342>
Component: generalAssignee: Jan Grulich <jgrulich>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: wishlist CC: nate
Priority: NOR    
Version: 5.24.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Manjaro   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Kearney 2022-04-10 00:36:31 UTC 
SUMMARY

At most time it looks like this: wifi+airplane+search. The hotspot btn is block by search panel

![](https://forum.manjaro.org/uploads/default/original/3X/a/3/a3cd74ea49a7d8782d5944c818f41a5250021335.png)

If I want to make hotspot panel show. I need to close wifi first.

![](https://forum.manjaro.org/uploads/default/original/3X/d/e/de4a5c6afbbef4250def79de212e0e4b126da0dc.png)

Now I need to open wifi to connect to the hotspot.

![](https://forum.manjaro.org/uploads/default/original/3X/2/8/28a2f3f1ca3c3cb0900ab18f6c4e1af300daae3f.jpeg)

Can you smart guys make the search panel smaller to show the hotspot button? Or just because the wifi and the hotspot function can not exist at the same time?

Thanks for reading.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Click network manager in system tray

OBSERVED RESULT

There are three parts:wifi, airplane, search. The hotspot is blocked by search panel

EXPECTED RESULT

The four parts appear at the same time. 

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
KDE Plasma Version: : 5.24.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.91.0
Qt Version: 5.15.3

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-nm/-/issues/1
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2022-04-11 18:30:03 UTC 
So the search field isn't actually covering up the Hotspot button. When it's not shown, it's because `handler.hotspotSupported` is being set to false. And yes, this happens because when you're using WiFi to receive a connection, you can't also be using WiFi to generate another one. WiFi can only be used for one thing at a time. So to make the hotspot button work, you need to receive your internet connection from Ethernet, mobile data, or some other non-WiFi source.
Comment 2 Kearney 2022-04-13 12:27:56 UTC 
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1)

Thanks for your kindly reply. That helps a lot.