Solved How to set an access point with spaces in the name correctly?

[Alexander88207]

Hello,

my adapter sometimes connects to other free networks instead of my. I have tried to follow 31.3.4.1.2.1. Selecting an Access Point

Chapter 34. Advanced Networking

Advanced networking in FreeBSD: basics of gateways and routes, CARP, how to configure multiple VLANs on FreeBSD, etc

www.freebsd.org

but my wifi name have spaces. I have tried with "FRITZ!Box 7590 NX" or FRITZ!Box_7590_NX but it doesn't work. Anybody got another idea?

Many thanks in advance!

 

[eternal_noob]

In 31.3.2. Quick Start there is this:

Add an entry for this network to /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf. If the file does not exist, create it. Replace myssid and mypsk with the SSID and PSK provided by the network administrator.

network={
    ssid="myssid"
    psk="mypsk"
}

Did you try this?

"FRITZ!Box 7590 NX" or FRITZ!Box_7590_NX

Spaces and underscores are two completey different characters when it comes to SSID names.
See https://routersecurity.org/SSID.php

But:

any use of a special character may be asking for trouble.

So there are indeed problems with spaces in SSID names sometimes. I'd rename the WIFI.

 

[Alexander88207]

I think you misunderstood me. I want to set the ssid in the /etc/rc.conf so that freebsd can choose that network directly.

 

[Emrion]

I believe you can't do that in rc.conf if the SSID has spaces because space is the separator for command arguments.

Have you tried what freebsd_noob pointed? It should work.
See wpa_supplicant.conf(5) for more information.

 

[Alexander88207]

Works great, thank you ?

 

[eternal_noob]

Convert the string to hex.

You learn something new every day.

 

[Emrion]

No need "0x" as prefix?

ssid ssid
Set the desired Service Set Identifier (aka network name). The
SSID is a string up to 32 characters in length and may be speci-
fied as either a normal string or in hexadecimal when preceded by
`0x'. Additionally, the SSID may be cleared by setting it to
`-'.

I wonder what to do if your SSID actually begins by "0x"...