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yanis

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Registered: 2015-03-15

Posts: 3

Do the contents of my wpa_supplicant.conf need to be re-worked?

Both my hardware and software support WiFi 6 and WPA3-Personal authentication. Specifically my computer has an Intel WiFi 6e chipset.

Below is my version of /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf to connect my computer to a wireless router that uses WPA3-Personal authentication only.

# Connections to pure WPA3-Personal access points

# MAIN section

# ISO/IEC alpha2 country code in which the device is operating

country=us

# Giving configuration update rights to wpa_cli

ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=wheel
update_config=1

# According to Archlinux wiki, Intel WiFi 6 cards may need sae_pwe=1 in the main (non network) section of the config file

sae_pwe=1


# NETWORK section

network={
	ssid="MYSSID"
	key_mgmt=SAE
	sae_password="the.literal.wifi.password"
        ieee80211w=1
}

group=CCMP
pairwise=CCMP

Questions

(1) Should I set the value of ieee80211w to be 1 or 2?

(2) Are group=CCMP and pairwise=CCMP required?

P.S.: Except for Archlinux's wiki titled wpa_supplicant in which a small sub-section is dedicated to WPA3-SAE, the following online articles do not provide examples of wpa_supplicant.conf with WPA3-Personal authentication:

wpa_supplicant.conf(5) - Linux man page

wpa_supplicant.conf

Thank you for your help.

Strike0

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From: Germany

Registered: 2011-09-05

Posts: 1,429

Re: Do the contents of my wpa_supplicant.conf need to be re-worked?

(1) ieee80211w=2 means required (only wpa3), 1 means optional (mixed modes allowed)
(2) yes, CCMP is the correct cipher for wpa3 (and wpa2)