2008/9/4 Helmut Schaa <hschaa@suse.de>:

Am Freitag, 29. August 2008 14:42:30 schrieb ¡ElCheVive!:

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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