Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (673 mails)

["¡ElCheVive!" <elchevive68@xxxxxxxxx>]

2008/9/4 Helmut Schaa <hschaa@xxxxxxx>:
> Am Freitag, 29. August 2008 14:42:30 schrieb ¡ElCheVive!:
> > Anyone knows if theres a problem with KNetworkManager or ifup in
> > connecting to wireless networks with ESSIDs containing special
> > characteres like º, ª, ã, and others?
>
> How are the characters represented in "iwlist scan"?
>
> I'm not quite sure about this but the 802.11 standard specifies the ssid
> as a plain byte array. Hence the access point might use a different encoding
> than the client. AFAIK wpa_supplicant allows to enter a hex ssid, not sure
> about KNM and ifup.
>
> Helmut

Hi,

Appears like that:

Cell 07 - Address: 00:1E:E5:F4:14:73
                    ESSID:"St_Paul-10� Andar"
                    Mode:Master
                    Channel:9
                    Frequency:2.452 GHz (Channel 9)
                    Quality=40/100  Signal level:-76 dBm  Noise level=-102 dBm
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18
Mb/s
                                   24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s;
9 Mb/s
                                   12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
                    Extra:tsf=000000335d3cb187
                    Extra: Last beacon: 156ms ago

When should be this: ESSID:"St_Paul-10º Andar"

regards,

Luiz