elementary / elementary/settings-network

Enabling hotspot causes wifi to disconnect

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Description

in windows 10 i can share my wifi from same atheros card through which i connect to internet.
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/12841320/69901555-597e3480-13ab-11ea-91b9-b5eea7168320.png)

in elementary os , it will turn off my existing wifi connection and i cannot share my wifi from the same device.
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/12841320/69901560-73b81280-13ab-11ea-88e6-88ba37af113a.png)

```
android@android:~$ lspci | grep -i network
06:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
android@android:~$ sudo lshw -C network
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:06:00.0
logical name: wlp6s0
version: 01
serial: 80:56:f2:2c:68:97
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath9k driverversion=5.3.8-050308-generic firmware=N/A ip=192.168.1.99 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
resources: irq:18 memory:f7c00000-f7c7ffff memory:f7c80000-f7c8ffff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:09:00.0
logical name: enp9s0
version: 05
serial: e0:db:55:b3:41:5b
capacity: 100Mbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 firmware=rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII
resources: irq:17 ioport:e000(size=256) memory:f0004000-f0004fff memory:f0000000-f0003fff
android@android:~$

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