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From: Bruce Ellis <brucee@chunder.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] space in essid ....
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 13:29:41 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40A048A5.9060902@chunder.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0405102111490.1094-100000@maxroach.lanl.gov>

you are getting tokenized by the ctl file as well
as rc so you might try

echo essid '''x y''' > ctl
or even
echo 'essid ''x y''' > ctl

ron minnich wrote:

> I've tried:
> echo essid 'x y' > ctl
> and
> echo essid x\ y > ctl
>
> so how would I set the essid to something with a space ...
> no luck so far.
>
> Another question: is there an 802.11 sniffer for Plan 9, i.e. something
> you could use to sniff for a wifi and then output a string to cat > ctl to
> get you on to a network.
>
> thanks
>
> ron



  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-11  3:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-11  3:13 ron minnich
2004-05-11  3:29 ` Bruce Ellis [this message]
2004-05-11 14:42   ` ron minnich
2004-05-11 14:55     ` rog
2004-05-11 15:02       ` ron minnich
2004-05-11 15:44         ` rog
2004-05-11  3:49 ` Russ Cox
2004-05-11 15:08 ` Axel Belinfante

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