Hi, I am experiencing problems with connecting to a 6ghz network with fedora 41 (all updates installed as of today). Looking at this issue I first suspected an AP problem, not a client problem, but connecting to the same AP/network from the same laptop works fine when running a live ubuntu 24.10 For test purposes I have created a WPA3 6ghz only bssid. When enabling wpa_supplicant debug mode I get the following output: Jan 07 11:21:24 hostname.tld wpa_supplicant[41536]: wlp166s0: Cancelling scan request Jan 07 11:21:24 hostname.tld wpa_supplicant[41536]: wlp166s0: SME: Trying to authenticate with 96:2a:6f:xx:xx:xx (SSID='test_6ghz_network' freq=6375 MHz) Jan 07 11:21:24 hostname.tld wpa_supplicant[41536]: EAPOL: External notification - portValid=0 Jan 07 11:21:24 hostname.tld wpa_supplicant[41536]: wlp166s0: State: AUTHENTICATING -> AUTHENTICATING Jan 07 11:21:24 hostname.tld wpa_supplicant[41536]: nl80211: Authenticate (ifindex=3) Jan 07 11:21:24 hostname.tld wpa_supplicant[41536]: * bssid=96:2a:6f:xx:xx:xx Jan 07 11:21:24 hostname.tld wpa_supplicant[41536]: * freq=6375 Jan 07 11:21:24 hostname.tld wpa_supplicant[41536]: * SSID=test_6ghz_network Jan 07 11:21:24 hostname.tld wpa_supplicant[41536]: * IEs - hexdump(len=0): [NULL] Jan 07 11:21:24 hostname.tld wpa_supplicant[41536]: * auth_data - hexdump(len=38): 02 00 00 00 01 00 15 38 a3 44 95 72 56 80 cb 3f e5 fb 07 46 25 74 9b 96 dc e1 a1 e2 20 0c 19 b4 24 35 80 73 7d 87 Jan 07 11:21:24 hostname.tld wpa_supplicant[41536]: * Auth Type 4 Jan 07 11:21:24 hostname.tld wpa_supplicant[41536]: nl80211: Authentication request send successfully Jan 07 11:21:29 hostname.tld wpa_supplicant[41536]: wlp166s0: SME: Authentication timeout Jan 07 11:21:29 hostname.tld wpa_supplicant[41536]: wpa_driver_nl80211_deauthenticate(addr=96:2a:6f:xx:xx:xx reason_code=3) Non-working system uses: wpa_supplicant-2.11-3.fc41.x86_64 kernel-6.12.8-200.fc41.x86_64 The ubuntu live that works uses: wpasupplicant 2:2.10-22 6.11.0-8-generic Wifi Card: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6E(802.11ax) AX210/AX1675* 2x2 [Typhoon Peak] (rev 1a) The AP is a Ubiquiti U7 Pro Max, using a current 7.2.* early access firmware Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Have a 6ghz WPA3 network 2. Connect to it from fedora 41 Actual Results: Failure (SME: Authentication timeout) Expected Results: Successful connection
I can also make it work with fedora 41 Kernel 6.11.4-301.fc41.x86_64 so I am guessing this is a regression in kernel-6.12.8
issue is also happening with 6.12.9-200.fc41.x86_64 from f41 testing.
same with 6.12.10-200.fc41.x86_64 - I got some time today, lets see if I can bisect the commit that broke it
6.12.0-0.rc5.20241031git0fc810ae3ae1.47.fc42.x86_64 works 6.12.0-0.rc5.20241101git6c52d4da1c74.48.fc42.x86_64 doesn't work so that should narrow it down I guess :)
Linking upstream https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219714 with git bisect
It seems Ubiquiti was able to fix this on their side: Firmware 8.0.23 contains a fix: "Fixed Intel AX210 wireless authentication failures over 6GHz (WPA3) on Linux." I'll see if I can get some more information on the fix. I'll close this issue.