On Dec 11, 2013, at 21:16, Ted Unangst <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 20:32, jordon wrote: >> I have an Eee PC netbook that is an excellent little OpenBSD machine. I >> replaced the built in wifi card with one that uses athn0 and it works >> great. I recently changed the WPA2 key on my Apple Airport Extreme and >> noticed that I could no longer get the Eee PC to connect. In >> investigating this, I found this: >> >> 1) If i set the key to 12345678, it would connect fine. >> >> 2) If I set the key to a 38 character sequence with uppercase, lowercase, >> number, and symbol, it doesn’t connect. >> >> Is there a length limit or list of characters that do not work in wpa >> keys? I use hostname.athn0 to configure it. > > The password needs to be between 8 and 63 characters, but that doesn't > mean Apple doesn't interpret things slightly differently. >
The 38 uc/lc/num/sym password works on my apple devices as well as my work laptop (Win7), Nest thermostat (yes, it did suck entering it!) and a Nintendo 3DS, so I don’t think theres anything Apple-specific here. I was just hoping for a “Oh, we don’t allow a ‘^’ or ‘$’ in the hostname.if file” or something. If there’s no obvious reason why this shouldn’t work, I will start breaking it down to see if it is a length issue or a certain character that is breaking it.
