How to confirm I'm connected with WPA3 (on Linux Mint 20.2)?
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In my TP-Link router, I have set WPA version 2/3:
I am on Linux Mint 20.2 and I have explicitly set WPA3 for my connection:
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sudo wpa_cli status wlp60s0
outputs:
Selected interface 'p2p-dev-wlp60s0'
wpa_state=DISCONNECTED
...
and
sudo iwlist wlp60s0 scanning
outputs:
wlp60s0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: [mac-censored]
Channel:48
Frequency:5.24 GHz (Channel 48)
Quality=58/70 Signal level=-52 dBm
Encryption key:on
ESSID:"[ssid-censored]"
Bit Rates:6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s
36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Mode:Master
Extra:tsf=00000009e5fb8041
Extra: Last beacon: 652ms ago
...
IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
Group Cipher : CCMP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP
Authentication Suites (2) : PSK unknown (8)
Question:
I am testing WPA3, so far only Steam has had some crashes due to WPA3 that I know of, a quote:
> ... Fixed crashes when on a WPA3 wireless network ...
**How to confirm I'm connected with WPA3 (on Linux Mint 20.2)?**
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The furthest I managed to get was to verify the connected (as for searching for yes
) network is WPA3-capable or more precisely WPA2/WPA3 as set in the router using nmcli
:
sudo nmcli -f all -s dev wifi | grep -e yes -e SSID
which outputs:
NAME SSID SSID-HEX BSSID MODE CHAN FREQ RATE SIGNAL BARS SECURITY WPA-FLAGS RSN-FLAGS DEVICE ACTIVE IN-USE DBUS-PATH
AP
[censored] [censored] [censored] Infra 48 5240 MHz 270 Mbit/s 79 ▂▄▆_ WPA2 WPA3 (none) pair_ccmp group_ccmp psk sae wlp60s0 yes * /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/AccessPoint/1
Asked by Vlastimil Burián
(30515 rep)
Jul 18, 2021, 01:04 PM
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