WPA3 Support?

[itsalobster]

It's 2025 and still no WPA3 support. I feel like the excuse of "oh it's an old device, it's incompatible" is wearing really thin when new devices have the same issues and there isn't a firmware update fix. People have been asking about this for years now.

[Samrit26]

Hello,

I get where you’re coming from — the frustration is valid.
But before I take a stance on your specific scenario, I need a bit more detail so I’m not guessing:

Which HP product and which wireless NIC are you dealing with?
(Example: Intel 8260, Intel 7265, Realtek RTL8822BE, Ralink/Mediatek card, etc.)

Here’s the core issue I usually explain to the team:

WPA3 support isn’t actually determined by the laptop model or the BIOS — it’s almost always dictated by the wireless chipset’s hardware capabilities and its vendor-provided firmware. Even when an OS “supports” WPA3, the NIC’s microcode has to support the SAE handshake, PMF enforcement, and full WPA3 transition mode behavior.

A lot of the older Intel and Realtek adapters simply never shipped with WPA3-capable firmware, and vendors stopped investing in new microcode long before WPA3 became mainstream. That’s why even “recent” HP systems that happen to include a legacy wireless module also fail WPA3 — it’s the chipset, not the system age.

[Samrit26]

Hello,

I get the frustration — WPA3 has been a recurring topic across multiple HP product lines, but the behavior varies a lot depending on the specific platform, WLAN chipset, and OS stack (ThinPro, Windows IoT, Retail Linux, etc.). Before I say anything definitive, I need to understand exactly which device model, OS version, and WLAN module you’re referring to. Without that, it’s impossible to determine whether the limitation is architectural, driver-related, or simply pending in a roadmap.

Can you send me:

• Exact product (e.g., t640, t740, RP9, mt645, etc.)

• OS and version/build

• WLAN card model (Realtek, Intel, Qualcomm, etc.)

• Whether this is about WPA3-Personal, WPA3-Enterprise, or WPA3-Transition

Once I have that, I can tell you whether WPA3 is realistically implementable or if the platform genuinely hits a hardware/driver ceiling.