Wifi-QR not showing up in plasma-nm ui

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Wifi-QR not showing up in plasma-nm ui when using iwd as a backend for Network-Manager (done according to arch-wiki)

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plasma-nm UI when network-manager using wpa_supplicant as backend

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plasma-nm UI when network-manager using iwd as backend

Sysinfo

Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.22.0
Qt Version: 6.10.2

Lib/Pkginfo

extra/plasma-nm 6.5.5-1 (plasma) [installed]
extra/networkmanager 1.54.3-1 [installed]
extra/networkmanager-qt 6.22.0-1 (kf6) [installed]
extra/qrca 25.12.2-1 (kde-applications kde-utilities) [installed]
extra/qrencode 4.1.1-4 [installed]
extra/prison 6.22.0-1 (kf6) [installed]
extra/iwd 3.11-1 [installed]
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The archwiki article you linked mentions that the iwd backend for networkmanager is experimental. It referred to it as “the experimental iwd backend” which you need to go out of your way to enable.

So, it shouldn’t be too surprising that some things don’t work in that configuration…

Although old, this may be relevant.

https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/n6rq3r/does_kde_plasma_support_iwd/

Some of this may have been fixed, but it doesn’t surprise me that still not everything works.

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Honestly everything for the most part works really well, and I get faster connections and auto-connects with IWD over wpa_supplicant this is the only problem that I noticed after using IWD for a while and was trying to share a password and noticed that there was no Share option via QR and after hours of searching, I’m surprised no one else noticed this, so I thought of documenting it here because it felt like a plasma-ui issue

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Could also just not have been reported.
Sometimes people who encounter non-breaking bugs just continue without reporting them on bugs.kde.org

It could be.

While it is likely that the IWD integration in NetworkManager itself might not be reporting the network’s properties correctly, it could also be that the decision logic in the UI for when to display the “share” option is too strict

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So um should I report it or something :thinking: , will be open to send relevant logs with some help on how to

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Yes, please check the bug system if someone else has reported it, otherwise report yourself :slight_smile:

It could be related to this one https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=491678

If the Plasma part thinks the network is not secured then it won’t show the “share” option

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Yes this is definitely related a lot of the networks when using iwd as a backend keep showing security as insecure but with wpa_supplicant it shows the proper protocol

So ig that means this is more a iwd issue where iwd is unable to show the right security protocol than a plasma issue and looking at the bug report it’s also probably a Network-Manager issue

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