Troubleshooting • Re: Raspberry Pi 5 Not Connecting to WiFi

After doing some research around this subject I would conclude that WPA3 on the Raspberry Pi 5 built-in Wi-Fi is currently broken, has been for a long time, and is likely to continue to be broken until the firmware/drivers/wpa_supplicant/NetworkManager components settle into a good alignment.

DannyBee breaks down the issues here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38183394

This long running issue, opened Nov 2021, on Github seems to indicate it's been a long road and it's not over yet:

https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/4718

It appears with some combinations of the components (firmware, driver, kernel, wpa\_supplicant) it can be made to work, but this is a fragile situation to be in, any updates likely result in breaking the WPA3 support.

viewtopic.php?t=373077

It is being working on, but no particular timeframe has been mentioned.

If you NEED WPA3 I would suggest getting an external USB Wi-Fi adapter that has good Linux support and others have confirmed it works with WPA3.

A good resource for Wi-Fi adapters/chipsets that have built-in support in the Linux kernel can be found here:

https://github.com/morrownr/USB-WiFi

Statistics: Posted by phattmatt — Sun Oct 13, 2024 11:00 pm

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