[Klug-general] A word of warning about wireless WPA-PSK encryption keys

[James Morris]

I spent several days googling information about the broadcom b43
wireless device (in Debian, the network-config and b43-fmcutter
packages are all you need and it's easy) with this morning spent
trying to understand the debug output of wpa_supplicant. Then I "reset
wireless security to default" (all I had changed was the key) and it
all magically works. So I assume you can't use as many punctuation
characters as suggested. I do though wonder if it's because I didn't
install enough character encodings? I only installed gb-utf8 IIRC and
looking in /etc/network-config/settings.txt the pound sign had been
misrepresented. But it all works now so ok.


On 8 October 2010 10:52, Karl Buckland <buckland.karl at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Any further info as to why not, for those of us who are curious enough
> to try it?
>
> Karl
>
>
> On 8 October 2010 10:51, James Morris <jwm.art.net at gmail.com> wrote:
>> My BtHomeHub says the following:
>>
>> "Between 8 and 63 characters (which can be letters, numbers and punctuation)."
>>
>> So I decided to include the following symbols in my encryption key: `£#*})
>>
>> DONT!
>>
>>
>> James.
>>
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