Re: wpa_supplicant can´t connect to wpa2/tkip wifi with empty real essid

Elmar Stellnberger estellnb at elstel.org
Fri Sep 23 10:05:42 PDT 2022


Honestly I don´t know whether this is a bug or not supported but 
NetworkManager can´t connect either to the encrypted Wifi as you see 
from the tests in both reports.

Am 23.09.22 um 19:02 schrieb Elmar Stellnberger:
> The message "No suitable network found" in the debug logs is rather 
> cryptic. It lists all the essids of the wifis apparently correct and the 
> offered WPA2 & TKIP encryption shall also be supported in addition to 
> GMAC-256, GMAC-128 and CMAC. To me this looks like a bug. Can anyone help?
> 
> Am 23.09.22 um 11:41 schrieb Elmar Stellnberger:
>> Dear Supporters of wpa_supplicant
>>
>>    We are debugging problems with a wifi in Italy at bugs.mageia.org 
>> and as it appears wpa_supplicant may not be able to connect to a wifi 
>> with empty real essid and properly set OWE transition mode essid 
>> although the ciphers shall be supported.
>>
>> for the iw scan results see:
>> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30857
>>
>> for more readable awk-ed scan results see:
>> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30859
>>
>>    Lately I have also supposed that wpa_supplicant not wanting to 
>> connect to this wifi might be related to something else: Could the 
>> problems be because I wanted to connect with WPA2/TKIP instead of 
>> WPA/TKIP or WPA2/CCMP? How to connect with GMAC-256, GMAC-128 or CMAC? 
>> I haven´t found a valid configuration file using this, yet.
>>
>>    I would really appreciate it, if you could advice me or have a 
>> closer look at the debug output of wpa_supplicant in bug 30857.
>>
>> Yours Sincerely,
>> Elmar Stellnberger
>>
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