LMDE 6 - cinnamon-settings network seems to be unable to display or set WPA3 as a security type

[martini1992]

Distribution

LMDE 6

Package version

6.0.4

Graphics hardware in use

Intel HD Graphics 5500

Frequency

Always

Bug description

cinnamon-settings network seems unable to display or set WPA3 as a security type for a wireless network.

Querying NewtorkManager through nmcli, nmtui or nm-connection-editor allows me to setup a connection with the correct WPA3 security, and confirms it is connected etc once activated.

However the cinnamon-settings network displays WPA2 in the current connection info and shows None as the set security method for the connection.

This is the case when using either wpa_supplicant or IWD as the backend for NetworkManager.

Steps to reproduce

Attempt to create a WPA3 connection to an access point through cinnamon-settings network (WPA3 is available on the create dialog, but not in the connection config once saved), observe that you can't. Create the connection through and of the native NetworkManager UI's and it works corroborated by querying the current connection info with nmcli.

Expected behavior

Creating a network connection with WPA3 security should display WPA3 as the connection security once connected, and should show WPA3 as an option when reconfiguring a connection that already exists.

Additional information

Not 100% wpa_supplicant works with WPA3 (was having the issue and tried switching to IWD early on) IWD definitely works with WPA3 though. I imagine that if I reinstalled wpa_supplicant and created the connection through nmcli etc it would be fine and the display issue would still exist.

I believe this is an issue between NetworkManager and the cinnamon-settings network component.