On Dec 12, 2013, at 22:10, Philip Guenther <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Dec 2013, jordon wrote:
>> I just confirmed that the problem is the dollar sign character ($).
>>
>> If there is a dollar sign in the wpa key, openbsd cannot connect to the
>> network. I tried putting the wpakey in quotes and escaping the
>> character with a backslash. Neither worked.
>>
>> Is there some workaround for this, or is the solution to not have a
>> dollar sign in your wpa key?
>
> Try two backslashes before it.
>
> ('read' strips a plain backslash itself, so to get a backslash through to
> the eval you need two.)
>
Bingo! That works! Thank you much!
Jordon
