Comment 48 for bug 1967690

(In reply to Clemens Famulla-Conrad from comment #45)
> Hi Hans-Peter,
> do you have updates from AVM?

Ups, sorry, the answer was so disappointing that I forgot to pass it on:

> Thank you for your patience.
>
> The Wi-Fi client you are using "Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205" is from 2011
> and supports WPA2 only due to its specs:
>
> https://www.compare.de/datacontent.php?EAN=0675901041713
>
> https://ark.intel.com/content/www/de/de/ark/products/59471/intel-centrino-advancedn-6205-dual-band.html
>
> To resolve the issue, the colleagues recommend to perform step 4 in the
> following link:

> Wireless device cannot establish a connection to the FRITZ!Box
> https://en.avm.de/service/knowledge-base/dok/FRITZ-Box-7490/509_Wireless-device-cannot-establish-a-connection-to-the-FRITZ-Box

Considering that I had already told them at the beginning that we are trying to avoid the complete shutdown of WPA3, this statement is already strong stuff.

(In reply to Clemens Famulla-Conrad from comment #46)
> From my point of view, it is now fixed in NetworkManger with these two
> commits:
>
> *
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/commit/
> cd1e0193abcf26f523bd52d83af5aab086ceaa92
> *
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/commit/
> a0988868ba7b4390790cab43cca5103f80a6a300
>
> I would like to remove the work-around of not forwarding SAE capabilities to
> the
> NetworkManager, as this just prohibit WPA3.

You're right.

> Can someone verify, if it now works with NetworkManager and a wifi card
> which support SAE but do not have the PMF cipher support like CMAC
> (00-0f-ac:6).
>
> This is the wpa_supplicant package without that patch:
> https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:cfconrad:branches:hardware/
> wpa_supplicant

Will test this again and report, and leave the needinfo flag enabled until then.