There was a recent change to wifi drivers to add wifi protected management frame (PMF), which may have side effects that look like what you're seeing.
Are you using join? If so, I committed a fix for this a few hours ago. you can do: ifconfig iwm0 nwid "fifi" wpaakms "psk,sha256-psk" wpakey yourkey to connect for now. If that works, you can update your kernel to get the fix. -peter On 2025 Dec 04 (Thu) at 19:00:38 +0100 (+0100), Marcus MERIGHI wrote: :>Synopsis: iwm(4) 8265 can't connect to network :>Category: kernel :>Environment: : System : OpenBSD 7.8 : Details : OpenBSD 7.8-current (GENERIC.MP) #135: Wed Dec 3 14:12:51 MST 2025 : [email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP : : Architecture: OpenBSD.amd64 : Machine : amd64 :>Description: : iwm(4) 8265 can't establish a connection anymore : It started with yesterdays (2025-12-03 CET) snapshot: : worked: : OpenBSD 7.8-current (GENERIC.MP) #130: Mon Dec 1 : 01:45:33 MST 2025 : did not work: : OpenBSD 7.8-current (GENERIC.MP) #133: Wed Dec 3 : 10:03:07 MST 2025 : iwm0: flags=808843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,AUTOCONF4> mtu : 1500 : lladdr a0:88:69:aa:bb:cc : index 1 priority 4 llprio 3 : groups: wlan : media: IEEE802.11 autoselect : status: no network : ieee80211: nwid fifi wpakey wpaprotos wpa2 wpaakms : sha256-psk wpaciphers ccmp wpagroupcipher ccmp : "ifconfig iwm0 debug" shows in dmesg in an endless loop: : iwm0: SCAN -> SCAN : iwm0: end passive scan : iwm0: - 00:22:6b:48:8d:84 11 +17 54M ess privacy rsn! : "fifi"! : iwm0: - 04:f0:21:3b:cb:f4 9 +48 54M ess privacy rsn! : "fofo"! : iwm0: - 3c:84:6a:58:2f:63 2 +17 54M ess privacy rsn! : "fallera"! : iwm0: - 44:57:02:10:26:51 5 +23 54M ess no! rsn! : "flubber"! : iwm0: - 48:ed:e6:aa:9a:e1 6 +17 54M ess privacy rsn! : "blabla"! : iwm0: SCAN -> SCAN :>How-To-Repeat: : Lenovo X1 Carbon 5th Gen. with: : iwm0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 8265" : rev 0x88, msi : iwm0: hw rev 0x230, fw ver 36.ca7b901d.0, address : a0:88:69:aa:bb:cc : try to connect to your usual networks. :>Fix: : None known -- If you can lead it to water and force it to drink, it isn't a horse.
