Bug 490948 - Displays "enter password for this wifi" when connection is lost, even though saved and working
Summary: Displays "enter password for this wifi" when connection is lost, even though ...
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Networking in general (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 6.1.3
Platform: Fedora RPMs Linux
: NOR minor
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2024-07-28 21:02 UTC by Henning
Modified: 2025-07-17 03:47 UTC (History)
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Description Henning 2024-07-28 21:02:47 UTC
There seems to be a bug in the detection of "why does this network not let me connect?"

1. Connect to a network
2. enter the password
3. Walk away from it until the connection is dropped
4. you should get that notification

It 100% works to click that popup away and just connect to the Wifi again, this is a bug.

As the happy owner of a bad router I am in that case quite a lot of times.

KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.4.0
Qt Version: 6.7.2
Kernel Version: 6.9.10-200.fc40.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 8 × 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz
Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® Xe Graphics

glib-networking-2.80.0-1.fc40.x86_64
systemd-networkd-255.8-1.fc40.x86_64
kf6-networkmanager-qt-6.4.0-2.fc40.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-driver-network-10.1.0-3.fc40.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-config-network-10.1.0-3.fc40.x86_64

30:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX200 (rev 1a)

Router: some Fritzbox you likely dont have.

$ iw dev
phy#0
        Unnamed/non-netdev interface
                wdev 0x5
                addr ADDRESS1
                type P2P-device
        Interface wlp48s0
                ifindex 3
                wdev 0x1
                addr ADDRESS2
                ssid ROUTER-NAME
                type managed
                channel 13 (2472 MHz), width: 20 MHz, center1: 2472 MHz

So seems to happen on 2,5GHz (which makes sense given the distance from the router)
Comment 1 Ben Cooksley 2024-12-23 18:23:41 UTC
Bulk transfer as requested in T17796
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2025-06-17 18:22:55 UTC
Can you clarify this:
> It 100% works to click that popup away and just connect to the Wifi again, this is a bug.

Are you saying that the network remains in the networks list and you can try to re-connect to it, and it will fail?

If so, that's not what I see in my testing; if I grab my laptop and walk away from the wifi router, the network eventually disconnects and disappears from the network list.

When you see this, are you not actually actually walking away from the router, and instead it's simply dropping the connection?
Comment 3 Bug Janitor Service 2025-07-02 03:47:27 UTC
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Comment 4 Bug Janitor Service 2025-07-17 03:47:36 UTC
🐛🧹 This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 30 days. Closing as RESOLVED WORKSFORME.