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Topic: How to escape spaces in a SSID?

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Post #1
fnord2007
19 Aug 2007, 13:42

Hello,

i have already searched the forum, but didnt found anything suitable.

I have an WRT54GL running with WR 0.9, configured in Client Mode to access a certain Access Point with WEP 64bit encryption. The SSID of this AP is from a form like

"AP foo".

The AP should distribute IPs via DHCP, but neither I can't get one, nor I get *any* WLAN frames. Now I have the assumption, that the WRT can't connect because of the space in the SSID.
At the moment it is set by

nvram set wl0_ssid=AP foo

Is this right or have I to escape the space? And if so, how do I that?

Greets, fnord

Post #2
Borromini
19 Aug 2007, 14:18

Escaping is done by adding \ before the character to be escaped:

Ap\ foo

Alternatively you can double/single quote it, but it looks like that doesn't help much with WhiteRussian (I tried doing it with my WPA key which has a ' in it).

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