I was trying to figure out why my ONN UHD streaming box was not saving my WiFi password after restarts and/or hard power cycles and after switching to another AP.

I finally figured out that with WPA3 with WPA2 fallback activated on my openWRT 21.02 AP it would not save my WiFi password, but if I changed the security to WPA2 with WPA fallback, the ONN device saved the WiFi password.

Also the ONN device would always take a quite a while to connect to and sometimes do a soft reboot when trying to connect to the AP with WPA3 enabled.

Any one else have this issue with connecting to WiFi AP's running OpenWRT 21.02 with WPA3 with WPA2 fallback enabled?

I tried to call onn support to get the issue put on their feedback list, but got a script reading non-native English speaker that could not grasp what I was trying to do. After much frustration, he gave me a phone number that he assured me had people that could log my issue: he gave me the number to Handy partners for Walmart that help to install flatscreen TV's in people's homes. :-( Walmart service FTW!