Have observed this on PopOS since the last 2 months or so while on PopOS 20.10, ever since some kernel update. Now I'm on 21.04 .
Wifi card connects to 2 Ghz fine with these logs .
[Tue Jul 6 11:35:42 2021]
[Tue Jul 6 11:35:42 2021] wlp3s0: send auth to fx:2x:7x:0x:dx:a8 (try 1/3)
[Tue Jul...