Can't connect to Router WIFI

Framework Laptop 13 Linux
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I can connect to my android’s hotspot, but for some reason the framework (PopOS and Fedora 36 live cd) can’t seem to connect to my “TP-Link Archer C6” router. I’m sure the password is correct.

I tried the system76 troubleshooting guide with no luck. This is my home router so I was wondering if I could get any help to fix it :pray:

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Is there anything in the system logs (you can check journalctl right after attempting and failing to connect)?

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Here is what I have from dmesg:

[11884.324611] wlp170s0: authenticate with 11:11:11:11:11:11
[11884.324640] wlp170s0: bad VHT capabilities, disabling VHT
[11884.324643] wlp170s0: 80 MHz not supported, disabling VHT
[11884.332361] wlp170s0: send auth to 11:11:11:11:11:11 (try 1/3)
[11884.363469] wlp170s0: authenticated
[11884.365747] wlp170s0: associate with 11:11:11:11:11:11 (try 1/3)
[11884.469843] wlp170s0: associate with 11:11:11:11:11:11 (try 2/3)
[11884.573864] wlp170s0: associate with 11:11:11:11:11:11 (try 3/3)
[11884.677869] wlp170s0: association with 11:11:11:11:11:11 timed out

journalctl:

May 06 22:32:21 pop-os NetworkManager[820]: <info>  [1651865541.6946] device (wlp170s0): supplicant interface state: scanning -> authenticating
May 06 22:32:21 pop-os NetworkManager[820]: <info>  [1651865541.6947] device (p2p-dev-wlp170s0): supplicant management interface state: scanning -> authenticating
May 06 22:32:21 pop-os kernel: wlp170s0: send auth to 11:11:11:11:11:11 (try 1/3)
May 06 22:32:21 pop-os wpa_supplicant[863]: wlp170s0: Trying to associate with 11:11:11:11:11:11 (SSID='The Shire is great' freq=2472 MHz)
May 06 22:32:21 pop-os NetworkManager[820]: <info>  [1651865541.7277] device (wlp170s0): supplicant interface state: authenticating -> associating
May 06 22:32:21 pop-os NetworkManager[820]: <info>  [1651865541.7277] device (p2p-dev-wlp170s0): supplicant management interface state: authenticating -> associating
May 06 22:32:21 pop-os kernel: wlp170s0: authenticated
May 06 22:32:21 pop-os kernel: wlp170s0: associate with 11:11:11:11:11:11 (try 1/3)
May 06 22:32:21 pop-os kernel: wlp170s0: associate with 11:11:11:11:11:11 (try 2/3)
May 06 22:32:21 pop-os kernel: wlp170s0: associate with 11:11:11:11:11:11 (try 3/3)
May 06 22:32:22 pop-os kernel: wlp170s0: association with 11:11:11:11:11:11 timed out
May 06 22:32:22 pop-os wpa_supplicant[863]: wlp170s0: CTRL-EVENT-SSID-TEMP-DISABLED id=0 ssid="The Shire is great" auth_failures=2 duration=20 reason=CONN_FAILED
May 06 22:32:22 pop-os NetworkManager[820]: <info>  [1651865542.0980] device (wlp170s0): supplicant interface state: associating -> disconnected
May 06 22:32:22 pop-os NetworkManager[820]: <info>  [1651865542.0980] device (p2p-dev-wlp170s0): supplicant management interface state: associating -> disconnected

(changed the mac address)

Any ideas? I’m really clueless at this point.

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Hello! I’ve had similar issues when folks visit me. A few changes in the router settings that helped me,

  1. Have you setup both the 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz networks with different names? If not, please try this, I’ve had Windows machines and a few Linux distorts unable to handle it when they have the same name. I do not know why!
  2. I had to change to WPA2 AES from WPA2.
  3. Fixed channel width of 20 MHz for the 2.4 GHz network.

This generally fixed the speed and connectivity issues for older Windows and some Linux distributions.

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Thanks @5uie1 it worked!

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Glad it helped :slight_smile: