Puppy Network Wizard

[Scrollon]

Hello
I'm new to Puppy and I am struggling to setup my wifi network adapter. I'm using the Puppy Network Wizard and all is fine until I try to enter the Shared Key. It contains a backslash (\) which is getting ignored. I have tried \\ but that doesn't work either. Is there a way of escaping the \ character? Can I set the shared key in another way, perhaps from the command line?
Any help would be most welcome.
Regards
Geoff

[rcrsn51]

Try a different connection manager. PeasyWiFi has a similar problem with back-slashes, but it lets you manually edit the wpa_supplicant.conf file to fix it.

Or you can use \\.

[Scrollon]

I tried using \\ with no success. I will have a look at Peasy Wifi, thanks.

[rcrsn51]

Sorry. I meant that PWF can use \\ instead of doing a manual edit.

[Burn_IT]

Does either allow inputting the key as hex??
I'm at work so I cannot look right now

[Scrollon]

Hi rcrsn51

Got it! I installed PWF and tried \\ again and, as you said, it just works. Thanks very much for the very swift response.
Cheers
Geoff

[rcrsn51]

Excellent.

@Burn_IT: PWF's problem with the back-slash is that either GTKdialog or the bash scripting somehow interprets it as a line break. I have yet to track down the culprit. But it gets protected by using \\.

There is a sed command involved here that appears to need a triple-back-slash to work correctly!

If you use the hex version of the passphrase instead, you would need to manually edit the .conf file in order to remove the quotes that normally surround the passphrase.

I wonder how Frisbee handles this situation.