Mixed WPA2 and WPA3 support causes problems
This is related to #638 (closed) and !759 (merged)
Automatically enabling WPA3 support for key_mgmt=wpa-psk
has a couple of undesired side-effects:
- It redefines what
mgmt=wpa-psk
means and changed its behaviour - The UI doesn't reflect that change in behaviour, it still talks about
WPA & WPA2 Personal
which is misleading - It causes issues for certain APs where automatically enabling SAE results in a failure to associate
Ideally, I think this change should be reverted and a new mode introduced which enables mixed WPA/WPA2/WPA3 support
If this is not in the cards, a new mode should be introduced which allows to limit the mode to wpa-psk
and does not enable SAE
. The UI should be updated accordingly in any case
Related downstream bug reports: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1003907
Related fall out: #638 (comment 890603)
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2022-March/msg00016.html