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Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 13:29:41 +1000
From: Bruce Ellis <brucee@chunder.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] space in essid ....
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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