Return-path: Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:50465 "EHLO plane.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750993AbbFYUue (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jun 2015 16:50:34 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8E6S-0001tF-HH for linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2015 22:50:32 +0200 Received: from 92.206.66.102 ([92.206.66.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 2015 22:50:32 +0200 Received: from pommnitz by 92.206.66.102 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 2015 22:50:32 +0200 To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org From: Joerg Subject: Re: iw and non-ASCII SSIDs Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 20:50:25 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: (sfid-20150625_225037_608129_0D468D05) References: (sfid-20150625_181310_521075_380CF492) <1435255854.2096.18.camel@sipsolutions.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Johannes Berg writes: > > On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 16:12 +0000, Joerg wrote: > > Hello all, > > is there a way to submit a non-ASCII SSID with iw? One that contains > > 0 as in an octet with value zero? > > No, that doesn't seem to be possible in the code. > > But it's certainly possible in wp_supplicant config file, which you > should probably be using anyway? > > johannes That's what I thought from looking at the code, too. And no, this is for an IBSS network that uses an IPsec overlay for security. It doesn't use wpa_supplicant and changing the code that way would be a major hassle. I would volunteer to change iw to accept a hex encoded binary blob as SSID. What commandline would be acceptable? Regards Joerg