Kernel 6.12.20+rpt-rpi-v8 appears to have broken WPA3 personal support

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
28/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
linux

Research direction

Start by reproducing the WPA3 connection failure on the Raspberry Pi 4 with kernel 6.12.20+rpt-rpi-v8, then compare it with the previous kernel that worked. Review the kernel changes between those versions and collect connection logs; done means identifying the regression and restoring WPA3 Personal support.

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Description

Describe the bug

Upgrading via:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

To kernel 6.12.20+rpt-rpi-v8, appears to have broken WPA3 personal support. With the previous kernel
I had used sudo nmtui to successfully connect to WPA3 AP.

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

Upgrade to latest kernel

Device (s)

Raspberry Pi 4 Mod. B

System

6.12.20+rpt-rpi-v8 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 1:6.12.20-1+rpt1~bpo12+1 (2025-03-19) aarch64 GNU/Linux

Copyright (c) 2012 Broadcom
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