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Open/unencrypted > APs work fine. Worth trying with commit https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=1e33f8acd837420160ea088160d8648a3db54c3b, if it is not part of your image already. Vasanth