Several clients can connect fine to the EAP772 but only a Macbook Air M3 can not connect. I followed the rabbit hole and dug deep into the system settings of that mac and there is no fault to be found. I assume that the EAP772 is not compatible with M3 macs yet. The mac in question connects fine to an EAP683 (both APs were not turned on at the same time).

Anybody else experienced similar issues with newer macs?

Relevant infos:

* Macbook Air M3

* Macos Sonoma 14.6.1

* EAP772(EU) v1.0

* Firmware1.0.2 Build 20240312 Rel. 31645

I have tried several things and always tried to connect to wifi:

* connect to existing 2.4Ghz, 5Ghz, 6Ghz wlans and any combination of these

* create a new wlan with several combinations 2.4, 5 and 6 Ghz

* try wlans with security set to None

* reboot mac and AP several times

* create a new user on the mac

* boot mac in safe mode

* create an USB bootable stick with Macos Sonoma, boot it and connect to wifi from there

* remove all network settings from /Library/Preferences/SystemConfigurations

* remove any saved wifi credentials from keychain (also icloud keychain)

On the mac I get these relevant log entries:

Assoc: <airport[377]> Will associate to [ssid=XXX, bssid=<redacted>, channel=(channel=36, width=80), ibss=no, cc=DE, rssi=-44, rsn=(mcast=aes_ccm, ucast={ aes_ccm }, auths={ sae }, caps=0xcc), wpa=(null), wep=no], hasPassword=1

Info: <airport[377]> <en0> Failed to associate to Wi-Fi network XXX, returned error code -3970, retrying

AutoJoin: <airport[377]> -[CWXPCSubsystem __associateToWiFiNetwork:tetherDevice:password:is8021X:passpointDomain:remember:possiblyHidden:updateUserKeychain:interface:processName:suspendAWDLToken:isAutoJoin:error:]: Failed to associate to Wi-Fi network XXX on interface en0, triggering auto-join

Apple80211SetWithIOCTL:13415 @[15345.581950] ifname['en0'] IOCTL type 22/'APPLE80211_IOC_DISASSOCIATE' return -528342013/0xe0822403