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jerrry94087
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 Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 6:16 pm Post subject: How to escape special chars in WiFi SSID? |
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SSID of WiFi network that I want to use is in the form XXX-XXX
I am trying to write it in /etc/conf.d/net as:
key_XXX-XXX="[1] <PASSWORD> [1] open" but it seems it associates with the network but doesn't set the encryption key: Encryption key=Off
Backslash before dash doesn't seem to help. |
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jerrry94087
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I found the reply for my own question: replace any chars not in a-zA-Z0-9 with _.
Which is very weird and unexpected: what if 2 SSIDs only differ in those special chars? |
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UberLord
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jerrry94087
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[quote="UberLord"] | jerrry94087 wrote: |
Sadly, that's a limitation of configuring in shell.
Are you currently in a situation where this is a problem?
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No I am not in such situation.
But being an engineer I always think about these kind of things. |
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UberLord
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[quote="jerrry94087"] | UberLord wrote: | | jerrry94087 wrote: |
Sadly, that's a limitation of configuring in shell.
Are you currently in a situation where this is a problem?
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No I am not in such situation.
But being an engineer I always think about these kind of things. |
Then you'll appreciate it's a known issue 
Solvable yes, but it would mean a more complicated setup seeing as the only character NOT allowed in ASCII is the NULL one.
Now try and make that work with iwconfig and that's a big limitation right there regardless of configuration.
Things are a little better with wpa_supplicant, but we make no attempt to configure that.
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