Issue Connecting to School Wifi on Fedora 41

hello everyone, I recently bought a thinkpad t480s and decided to install Fedora 41. Right after installation the wifi was working perfectly, but after completing the most recent updates on the Software app, I was unable to connect to the school wifi. When I press on the button to connect, it loads for about 1 minute and then asks for authentication and after inputing the info it proceeds to load for another minute and ask for authentication again. It fully disconnects me after two cycles of typing in authentication. Some help would be greatly appreciated. When I press ā€˜forget connectionā€™ and then try to reconnect, the wifi requires WPA2 security, PEAP authentication, and a CA certificate as well, I donā€™t if that means anything though. Thanks

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im able to connect to my personal hotspot on my phone though

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Same here, please find some solution fast. I was trying to do some resetting and in the way i have broke my fedora and dual booted windows with it, lost all the data.

Same issue here

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Related problem here. Iā€™ve seen a few issues with Fedora 41 and kinda rolled back to 40 but still facing issues (canā€™t reinstall 40 completely rn but some problems like keyboard and SELinux went away or are less frequent).

In my system I can connect to the Uni wifi normally but there seems to be an issue with mismatching certificates. It freaks out when it notices Iā€™m in a ā€œpublicā€ network and some sites canā€™t go through (basic stuff like google maps, some general google searches but not others, instagram, etc). The problem seems to be more or less confined to Firefox; other browsers (like Opera in my case) donā€™t have it.

Hey look at this once,

run sudo dnf remove pkcs11-provider and restart.

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I had the same problem too, and I solved it. THANKS!

Mine works aswell, thanks!!!

This saved my bacon thank you so much

I solved it according to the method you said, now I can connect to schoolā€™s eduroam. Thanks a lot!!!

As mentioned in one of the comments on the bugtracker, sudo dnf downgrade pkcs11-provider also works.

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Had the same issue. Thought it was the certificateā€¦ Removing the pkcs11-provider package solved the issue. Thanks a lot, this saved me some trouble!

I had the same authentication issue with eduroam after an update and fixed it with saikamalā€™s solution!

Hi,
I was able to fix the problem by changing the inner authentication [ there is an option in Wi-Fi settings > Wi-Fi security ] method from ā€˜MSCHAPV2ā€™ to ā€˜GTCā€™. This latter method [ GTC ] seems to be more secure than the former [ MSCHAPV2 ] . See ( Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol - Wikipedia ) . But GTC is not supported by microsoft products.

If any of the statements made above are wrong please correct me.