KDE Connect Not Working with USB WiFi Adapter

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Since my laptop has one of those built-in wifi adapters that has bad Linux firmware, I switched to one of the recommended WiFi USB sticks. It’s been working great, but KDE Connect isn’t working at all with it. Even though I have my paired phone right up next to it, they won’t see or connect to each other. I did try manual IP pairing in the app. Strangely, I also enabled bluetooth on both, and they won’t connect that way – but this problem only started when I switched to the USB WiFi adapter.

Anyone know what I can do to resolve this?

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Firewall issue?

The kdeconnect service needs to be enabled in the firewall.

If it worked on your previous WiFi adapter but not on the USB, it could be that the new connection is in a different firewall zone from the previous one. So you could either (a) change the zone of the new connection, (b) keep it in its current zone and enable the kdeconnect service in that zone.

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