I have a system with Ubuntu 20.10, kernel 5.11 with the Intel AX-210 Wi-Fi NIC with iwlwifi-ty-59.601f3a66.0.tgz driver.
I've found that Network Manager currently does not support WPA3 and OWE (Enhanced Open) which are required for my application. One suggestion is to try configuring Wi-Fi with wpa_supplicant.
In the default Ubuntu 20.10 installation, wpa_supplicant seems to be not present or disabled:
- /var/log/wpa_supplicant.log does not exist
- $ wpa_cli returns with “could not connect to wpa_supplicant”
- /etc/network/interfaces does not exist
However, wpa_supplicant is present:
$ which wpa_supplicant
/usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant
$ wpa_supplicant -version
wpa_supplicant v2.9
Copyright (c) 2003-2019, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> and contributors
This article notes that wpa_supplicant was deprecated with Ubuntu 17, but doesn't provide any guidance on re-activating it.
Is there any documentation on how to cause the Wi-Fi configuration in Ubuntu to be controlled by wpa_supplicant? Can wpa_supplicant run together with netplan and Network Manager, or must the others be disabled? If they must be disabled, where is that configuration described?
Edit: Network Manager has Enhanced Open and WPA3 options available from connection settings for networks that are not in the 6 GHz band.
However, the 6 GHz network six-e-test-1 does not have the "gear" for accessing settings.
iwlist freqIf so, is six-e-test-1 broadcasting on an available frequency? – chili555 May 07 '21 at 15:39