Re: PSK+SAE when creating an Access Point

[Alfonso Sanchez-Beato <alfonso sanchez-beato canonical com>]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 10:56 PM Thomas Haller <thaller redhat com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2022-03-22 at 11:52 +0100, Alfonso Sanchez-Beato via
> networkmanager-list wrote:
> > Hi there!
> >
> > I have been using NetworkManager 1.36.2 to create an Access Point,
> > but I am having some problems. Only devices that support WPA3 are
> > able to connect to the AP. Looking at the history, I see that
> > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/commit/f5d78c2d289c9e4a4c247d2520c7c3e2baf537c8
> > introduced a change that configures wpa_supplicant to be able to
> > connect to any of WPA, WPA2 or WPA3 and choose the best candidate.
> > However, it looks like this is breaking the hotspot case, at least
> > for me - when I revert the change I am able to connect again from
> > WPA2-only devices.
> >
> > I have seen these problems on
> > * An intel NUC with Intel wifi driver
> > * On a VM, when loading mac80211_hwsim with two radios (one for
> > hotspot, the other for connecting to it)
> >
> > Kernel version is 5.15.0 and wpa_supplicant is 2.10. Is this a bug or
> > maybe a more modern wpa_supplicant is needed?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Alfonso
>
>
> Hi,
>
> sounds related to https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/issues/638#note_1306214 ?

Looks related, but in my case I was creating the AP with NM instead of
connecting to an external AP. It is interesting to see that the problem
starts to happen with wpa_supplicant 2.10, the same version as the one I
am using.

> best
> Thomas