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jambi

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Registered: 2014-03-26

Posts: 32

[SOLVED] Networkmanager and special ascii characters kde issue

cannot connect to ssid with french characters like 'é' and other chars in networkmanager kde
it work fine in gnome but in kde the networkmanager dont recognize non english letters
have any one a way to use Hex value instead of ascii in ssid

Last edited by jambi (2014-07-14 00:03:43)

kortez

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Registered: 2014-07-07

Posts: 1

Re: [SOLVED] Networkmanager and special ascii characters kde issue

You need to configure the profile manually in

/etc//etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/

then create a file named

(null) 1

[connection]
id=(null) 1
type=802-11-wireless

[802-11-wireless]
ssid="SSID IN HEX"
mode=infrastructure
mac-address=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
security=802-11-wireless-security

[802-11-wireless-security]
key-mgmt='wireless security'
auth-alg=open
psk=password

you can convert from ascii to hex using terminal

echo 'ssid' | xxd -u -p

connectioneditor in kde need more handling functions to be added . i hope in next release they build a robust connectioneditor

Last edited by kortez (2014-07-07 21:15:45)

jambi

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Registered: 2014-03-26

Posts: 32

Re: [SOLVED] Networkmanager and special ascii characters kde issue

thank you so much it works