Would symbol < in the SSID cause wlan0 problems?

cayenne · l33t Joined: 17 Oct 2002 Posts: 945 Location: New Orleans

I'm running out of things to try to get this wireless linksys pci nic to work. Grasping at straws now. If you have the symbol < as part of the SSID for the card...could this somehow cause a problem with bringing it up on boot?

When booting, I see a quick message that 'netmount' was not started..but, can't read the other errors when it tries bringing wlan0 up. I can't find the boot up log file to read the whole message (can't find syslog?). Looked in /var/log but, can't find anything.

I read that PnP might be a problem...in the bios, I checked to see that PnP OS was deselected. In my lilo.conf, I added in the append part acpci=nopci....some suggested this might help. It did not. When I run lilo (after mounting my /boot directory)...I do get some geometries mis-matched errors...but, reading forums says this isn't a problem...just a symptom from an older bios.

I can start this card manually if I go ifconfig wlan0 up
and use the route command to set my default gateway...but, just won't come up at boot...

Thanks in advance for any suggestions. I'm really stuck on this one now...

cayenne

proxy · Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2003 5:12 am Post subject:

i know for it to work for me i had to create /etc/ini.d/net.wlan0 (you can just copy net.eth0 to make it)

proxy

Kesereti · Guru Joined: 07 Nov 2002 Posts: 520

Actually, that < character is one of the reserved characters for most standard UNIX shells...it may indeed be causing a problem as the script that sets all that up is just running shell commands...

cayenne · l33t Joined: 17 Oct 2002 Posts: 945 Location: New Orleans

Kesereti · Guru Joined: 07 Nov 2002 Posts: 520

Hrm...I believe that you may be able to escape the character (mark it so that the shell doesn't interpret it) with a \ character...so...if your SSID is blah<foo, then try blah\<foo ... although I can't guarantee that will work =)