HP OfficeJet 8600 Plus WiFi WPA2 PMF

[kosmos_ac]

Hi Community!

for the past days I have been tinkering around, trying to find any reason why my printer would no longer connect via WiFi. This morning I finally realized that this is probably connected to enabling WPA3 transition mode on my router a few weeks ago, and wasn't discovered immediately after the change due to one of the repeaters not having accepted the new configuration right away.

It turns out that the WPA3 transition mode (which should still allow WPA2 clients to connect) requires clients to use PMF (Protected Management Frames). It seems like the HP Officejet Pro 8600 Plus does support WPA2 without PMF only.

From what I learned on the web quite a lot of people with various WiFi enabled HP printer models do suffer from the same issue, utimately having to connect their printers either via USB or to disable WPA3 again.

I was wondering if anybody was able to get any information from HP by when they are going to release a firmware update to support WPA2 with PMF on the 8600 Plus? Unfortunately the support chatbot seems to not even know about this kind of issue yet.

Thanks for any advice you might have & take care everybody!

Kosmos

[Jay_G24]

Hi @kosmos_ac,

I'd like to help!

Unfortunately, this encryption type is not supported by our printers.

There are no updates released yet.

Hope this helps! Keep me posted. 

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