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mabalenk

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Registered: 2017-04-28

Posts: 36

Creating netctl profile to use with WPA3 Personal Wi-Fi network

Dear all,

I need help please. I recently upgraded my Wi-Fi router. In router's security settings I chose a WPA2/WPA3 security protocol. All the other settings I replicated from my previous Wi-Fi network setup, i.e. the ESSID and the security key (password). Now my netctl profile fails to connect. The 'netctl status' command returns the following error messages:

WPA association/authentication failed for interface 'wlan0'
Failed to bring the network up for profile '...'

I couldn't find any information on WPA3 on the ArchLinux Wiki page for netctl. Neither could I find any WPA3 examples in the netctl 'examples' directory. If possible, would you please help me to setup netctl with WPA3 security protocol? Thank you and have a good day ahead!

lspci -k command returns:

Network controller: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX200 (rev 1a)
Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
Kernel modules: iwlwifi

I found a relevant section on ArchLinux Wiki page related to wpa_supplicant: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wpa_su … ess_points.

Please find below my updated netctl profile file:
```
Description=''
Interface=wlan0
Connection=wireless
Security=wpa-configsection
IP=dhcp
WPAConfigSection=(
    'ssid="network"'
    'key_mgmt=WPA-PSK-SHA256'
    'password="password"'
    'ieee80211w=2'
)
```
At the moment the error messages are the same.

Last edited by mabalenk (2024-02-21 19:27:17)

seth

Member

Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 60,780

Re: Creating netctl profile to use with WPA3 Personal Wi-Fi network

Where's

key_mgmt=SAE
sae_password="the.literal.wifi.password"

in that config?

Otherwise debug the wpa config, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wpa_su … n_failures

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