Bug#1003907: fails to successfully associate

Hi,

On Sun, 20 Mar 2022, at 00:23, Masashi Honma wrote:
> In my opinion, this issue could be closed.
>
> These are reasons.
> 1) It is not wpa_supplicant issue but AP issue.
> 2) Users affected by this issue have some workarounds.

It=E2=80=99s true, but I=E2=80=99m not quite happy about not being able =
to fix this.

=C4=BDubom=C3=ADr (cc'ed), how did you deal with this issue in Fedora? I=
 assume you must also have received reports from Fritzbox users.

> Details of the 1)
> The investigation has revealed that the AP is in violation of "2.3
> WPA3-Personal transition mode" of the "WPA3 Specification v3.0", which
> is causing the issue. Specifically, the target AP is setting MFPR to 1
> even though it implicitly requires IEEE 802.11w. By "implicitly" we
> mean that the Assocation Request fails with WLAN_STATUS_INVALID_IE
> when using a Wi-Fi NIC with IEEE 802.11w disabled.
>
>
> Details of the 2)
> We know that users who meet the following conditions are affected by t=
his issue.
> - Using FRITZ!Box 7580/7590 with WPA2+WPA3 mode
> - Using wpa_supplicant with wpa_key_mgmt=3DSAE WPA-PSK
> - Local Wi-Fi NIC does not support IEEE802.11w
>
> Users affected by this issue can work around the issue in one of the
> following ways.
> - Use wpa_supplicant with WPA2 only mode (specify wpa_key_mgmt=3DWPA-P=
SK)
> - Use FRITZ!Box 7580/7590 with WPA2 only mode
> - Use IEEE 802.11w supporting Wi-Fi NIC

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Cheers,
  Andrej