Enhanced Open Wi-Fi

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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So I was traveling for work earlier this week and the hotel I was staying at had their WIFI setup as Enhanced Open (part of the WPA3 spec) or maybe it’s called Opportunistic Wireless Encryption.

My Linux box would not connect to it. Every time I tried I would get the same error “802-11-wireless-security.key-mgmt: Access point does not support PSK but setting requires it”

I did a lot of searching based on that error message and didn’t find anything helpful. I eventually realized that it was “Enhanced Open” from the info from my phone and work computer (Windows).

So does anyone know if Linux doesn’t support “Enhanced Open” or if somehow I missed how to get connected with it?

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I just encountered this, we had a powercut on Sunday and my other half was doing the shopping, I created a hotspot on a Pixel 8, she couldn’t connect to it from her PCSpecialist laptop (rebranded generic Tongfang/Clevo), my Lenovo Legion no problem.

The phone created a WPA3, didn’t get any further as the power came on.

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https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Network_configuration/Wireless#WPA3_Personal

Edit: I think the issue maybe related to this.

Enhanced Open uses SAE which replaces PSK :thinking:

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