Bug 498944

Created attachment 177564 [details]
Connection type (generation) not shown anywhere in the widget

SUMMARY
The connected network Details section in the Networks widget doesn't show at all the connection type (generation) when back-end is IWD.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. On KDE Neon, Debian or other distro install and switch to iwd as explained here: https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkManager/iwd
2. Open the Networks widget.
3. Click on the currently connected network and then its "Details" tab.

OBSERVED RESULT
Compared to the "station wlan0 show" command in the iwctl tool, that says that the "RxMode" is "802.11ac"...
The Networks widget doesn't show any info about the connection type (generation), either as a user-friendly generation number (Wi-Fi 5 in this case) or as IEEE standard, as iwctl tool shows.

EXPECTED RESULT
1. Show in the Details section the network type (generation) as  user-friendly Wi-Fi <number>, for example Wi-Fi 4, Wi-Fi 5, Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 7.
Or the not so user-friendly IEEE standards: 802.11n, 802.11ac, 802.11ax, 802.11be.
Like the table on Wikipedia shows:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11#General_description

Changing the network icon to display the generation number, like the Wi-Fi Alliance did, would be nice too (though it would be better if it's for all past, current and future generations):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_6#/media/File:Wi-Fi_6_Logo.png
But I wish that too only if the icon would still be able to display the signal level.

I noticed that newer versions of Android (>=13), can do that too and if I'm not wrong it can also display the generation even for some networks that is not connected to.
That would also be nice and useful to have.
But at the moment I don't see IWD providing that kind of information for networks that are not connected.


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma:
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.90
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.11.0
Qt Version: 6.8.1
Kernel Version: 6.8.0-51-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Hardware: Laptop Dell Inspiron 5770
Graphics Processor 1: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 620 (main)
Graphics Processor 2: AMD Radeon R5 M465 Series
Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 31)