I recently loaded Fedora 35 on my 32 bit Dell 5758 17" laptop. When I put in the password for the wifi connection I wanted the system won't accept the password. Instead, I get this msg: Authentication required. Passwords or encryption keys are required to access the wireless network.
I tried using other wireless connections that I use on other computers and double checked the passwords. It isn't a typing error.
I ran nmcli d show and nmcli connection show. The wlan card is there and when I ran rfkill, it's showing it as unblocked. I'm at a loss on what to do next to resolve this. The wlan card is a 3160gnw. It think it's an intel card. Any other suggestions?
Could this be a WPA supplicant problem. I haven't checked that out yet.
Thanks.

You did not install fedora 35 on a 32 bit system. Fedora has not produced a 32 bit kernel since fedora 32 and only supports 64 bit systems.

The wifi adapter you list is a dual band adapter and is also capable of both IPv4 and IPv6. Is your router also dual band? Does your ISP support IPv6? Do you have the proper driver installed/loaded?

Please post the output of "ip address show", "lspci -nn", and "inxi -Nxx" so we can see what the system actually shows for the network.

Also I suggest using dmesg immediately after a boot and show us the relevant parts where the system is configuring the wifi.

Ok. I'm working on it. Thanks again.

I have an Intel i3-5005U processor with an x86-64 architecture. In settings, under the about tab, it says the Fedora OS is 64 bit. I guess both the machine and the OS are 64 bit.

I tried posting a screen shot of the ip address and dmesg cmds but the file size was too big to post. I ran lspci -nn and the wireless card is there and it looks like the drivers are in use. It says the network controller is an Intel 3160 (rev 83). Every time I turn on this computer, it continuously says I need to authenicate my wireless connection. I know that the password is correct because I'm using it on other machines, like this one and I had another hard drive in it last week with POP OS and it was working fine. Now it won't work on any OS I try on it. How do you know when it's time to replace the wifi card?