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Subject: Re: [BUG?] b43: can't connect to WPA3 network (nohwcrypt=1)
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Date:   Tue, 19 May 2020 19:16:45 -0500
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On 5/19/20 6:13 PM, Rui Salvaterra wrote:
> On Tue, 19 May 2020 at 21:36, Rui Salvaterra <rsalvaterra@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi, Larry,
>>
>> On Tue, 19 May 2020 at 21:30, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>   From other drivers, it appears that handling WPA3 might be as simple as setting
>>> MFP_CAPABLE in the hardware capabilities. Please try this patch:
>>
>> Fantastic, thanks for the quick reply! I will do it ASAP and get back to you.
> 
> Unfortunately, looks like in this driver it's not so simple, the
> association is still rejected. I looked at the other drivers too and,
> sure enough, they just set the MFP_CAPABLE flag unconditionally with
> software crypto (I would expect mac80211 to magically handle it, but
> with b43 it doesn't seem to be the case).

It is necessary to load the driver with option nohwcrypt set to 1. I expect that 
you probably did that, but I forgot to mention it.

It would likely help if you can get verbose logs from wpa_supplicant.

Larry