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System Settings freezes after using external wifi device as hotspot

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This is both a software bug report and UI/UX frustration report.

**Bug Report:** External WiFi device may cause WiFi service to hang
**UX report:** Device name in WiFi and Hotspot are inconsistent and doesn't fit into the sidebar. It can easily cause confusion as it did in this case.

I tried to use my laptop as access point by setting an external Wifi device (TP-Link WN722N) as hotspot sharing the WiFi network built-in d
What I mean by entire OS got frozen is that, switching TTY wasn't possible either.evice connected to .

Due to device name not fitting to sidebar of network window, I mixed up built-in wifi as external wifi and turned it into hotspot. I noticed that and reconnected it back to WiFi I wanted to extend. Then I used external device to create hotspot. Only Network window got frozen at this point. I decided to log out and log back in to "fix" frozen System Settings > Network window about after 5 minutes. At this point the entire OS got frozen. Switching TTY wasn't possible. I had to force shutdown using power button.

![photo_2020-04-06_13-48-04](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/24689015/78536163-38bd6400-780f-11ea-9050-1da4b906c0ec.jpg)

OS: elementary 5.1.3
Kernel: Linux 5.3.0-40-generic
Computer: Lenovo IdeaPad 110
Built-in WiFi device: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377

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