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Date: 24 Aug 2014 23:54:14 -0000
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From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
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Subject: Re: wpa_supplicant questions
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>'service netif restart' seems inadequate and I have been having to
>reboot--an elaborate process because the notebook is UEFI and won't
>boot legacy-style off the hard disk.

Try

 service wpa_supplicant restart wlan0

>Also, how does one escape an apostrophe in an SSID, as in "Nature's
>Express" (the SSID at a vegan restaurant in North Berkeley), in the
>wpa supplicant configuration?

Hmmn.  Do double quotes work?

  ssid="Nature's Express"

R's,
John