Bug 498938 - The connected network Details section in the Networks widget shows the wrong security type when back-end is IWD
Summary: The connected network Details section in the Networks widget shows the wrong ...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 491678
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Networks widget (show other bugs)
Version: 6.2.90
Platform: Neon Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2025-01-20 21:29 UTC by John
Modified: 2025-01-21 21:44 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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2025-01-20 21:29 UTC, John
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Description John 2025-01-20 21:29:15 UTC
Created attachment 177559 [details]
Security type is wrong

SUMMARY
The connected network Details section in the Networks widget shows the wrong security type 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 seays that the security is: "WPA2-Personal"...
And the phone's hotspot configuration that says that the security is: "WPA2 PSK"...
The Networks widget says that the security type is: "Insecure", which is clearly wrong

EXPECTED RESULT
The Networks widget should say that the security type of the connected network is "WPA2-Personal" or "WPA2-PSK", when the back-end is IWD instead of WPA-Supplicant.
Or as Wikipedia says here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Protected_Access#WPA_terminology

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)

This bug seems similar to mine, although in my case for sure there's no WPA3 involved (as the phone doesn't support that):
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=491678
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2025-01-21 21:44:27 UTC
Yeah it's the same issue as Bug 491678.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 491678 ***