Space character in rc.conf variable

[Doug Barton]

On 10/30/10 11:56, Harald Servat wrote:
> 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.

The best solution would be to change the SSID to one without spaces. :)

If you can't or won't do that, one of these should work, please report 
back which one does:

='ssid "ssid with space" DHCP'
='ssid \"ssid with space\" DHCP'
="ssid 'ssid with space' DHCP"
="ssid \'ssid with space\' DHCP"


hth,

Doug

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