https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=498944
Bug ID: 498944
Summary: The connected network Details section in the Networks
widget doesn't show at all the connection type
(generation) when back-end is IWD
Classification: Plasma
Product: plasmashell
Version: 6.2.90
Platform: Neon
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: Networks widget
Assignee: plasma-b...@kde.org
Reporter: ilikef...@waterisgone.com
Target Milestone: 1.0
Created attachment 177564
--> https://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=177564&action=edit
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)
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