05-06-2021, 11:03 PM
(05-06-2021, 08:08 PM)KC9UDX Wrote: Don't blame the hardware; this must be a software issue. If you can connect without a password but not with, it must be software, or bad access point configuration.
I'll keep my opinions about Manjaro to myself, but I'll say that one of the really nice things about the PBP is that it's pretty operating system "agnostic". You can try out any of a large number of other ready-to-go operating systems on micro SD in minutes.
I've had literally dozens of devices connected to this router over the years and my two Pine devices are the only ones that don't work properly. I'm not the only user having trouble using WPA2 either.
I don't exactly blame the hardware but networking chips are notorious for being some of the worst for not disclosing adequate design docs to open source developers. Some of the disclosures may be critical or maybe even just helpful for handling encryption/decryption properly. Similarly, the Pine team is presently reverse engineering the micro-code for the cellular modem in the Pinephone in order to replace the closed source blob with open source code.
So my suspicion is the problem is caused by a lack of disclosure about the wifi NIC/radio hardware which results in firmware/software bugs. In the past, there were 5GHz chipsets that would only run 2.4GHz mode under Linux for exactly this reason. This might still be the case with some chips.