Bug 515959 - System Settings Wifi & Networking SSID view breaks with >1 wifi adapter connected.
Summary: System Settings Wifi & Networking SSID view breaks with >1 wifi adapter conne...
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: systemsettings
Classification: Applications
Component: kcm_networkmanagement (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: unspecified
Platform: CachyOS Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2026-02-13 18:12 UTC by kdebugreporter
Modified: 2026-02-13 18:12 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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relevant image showing how windows handles multiple adapters (4.17 KB, image/png)
2026-02-13 18:12 UTC, kdebugreporter
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relevant image showing how gnome handles multiple adapters (11.75 KB, image/png)
2026-02-13 18:12 UTC, kdebugreporter
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Description kdebugreporter 2026-02-13 18:12:19 UTC
Created attachment 189538 [details]
relevant image showing how windows handles multiple adapters

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SUMMARY
Every SSID is duplicated for every additional wifi adapter you plug in (it is hard to show this as SSIDs are semi unique and can be use to geolocate people (wigle.net)

For the status bar pop out widget, it at least tries to de-duplicate by showing the interfaces (wlan0/wlan1). This doesn’t happen for the view in System Settings.

Both of these approaches aren’t very good, I think something like Windows should be done where a drop down at the top becomes available to the SSIDs for each adapter:

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EXPECTED RESULT


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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 kdebugreporter 2026-02-13 18:12:52 UTC
Created attachment 189539 [details]
relevant image showing how gnome handles multiple adapters