Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 20:56:18 +0200 From: Harald Servat <redcrash@gmail.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Space character in rc.conf variable Message-ID: <AANLkTinQ6QpKacJLnKU=zgSYMo-NG7PajG26wBVxw0PR@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello -hackers,
(although this is a network topic, I think this may be the appropiate list
to ask. If you think it's not, please, tell me)
I'm trying to configure my wifi SSID within /etc/rc.conf in FreeBSD 8.1
amd64 , but I've found that I'm unable to get it working at boot time
(although I can do it after boot in cmd line).
My SSID has an space character and I don't know how to deal with it. So my
question is easy, how do I add an space in the SSID? I've tried wrapping the
SSID using \" , \' also adding \(space), changing " for ' and others without
success.
As an example my rc.conf entry looks like
ifconfig_wlan0="ssid SSID WITH SPACE dhcp"
and after booting I see that ifconfig tried to connect to SSID instead to
"SSID WITH SPACE".
As I said, if I run ifconfig wlan0 ssid "SSID WITH SPACE" from the command
line, works fine.
Any clues on how to solve this in rc.conf?
Thank you very much!!
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