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al3rez

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Registered: 2025-07-07

Posts: 1

nmcli Unable to Connect to Public Wi-Fi with Spaces, @ and . in SSID

Hi,

I am trying to connect to a public wifi that has prefix spaces @ and dot

        10:05:CA:53:35:DE     .@ TrueMove H             Infra  100   405 Mbit/s  75      ▂▄▆_  WPA2 802.1X
        88:1D:FC:8C:A5:BE     .@ TrueMove H             Infra  60    405 Mbit/s  69      ▂▄▆_  WPA2 802.1X
        50:2F:A8:81:2D:CE     .@ TrueMove H             Infra  116   405 Mbit/s  65      ▂▄▆_  WPA2 802.1X
        74:A0:2F:FB:1F:0E     .@ TrueMove H             Infra  40    405 Mbit/s  50      ▂▄__  WPA2 802.1X
        1C:DE:57:DE:7D:96  True_Shop_5G                 Infra  48    270 Mbit/s  40      ▂▄__  WPA1 WPA2
        F4:CF:E2:E9:FB:AE     .@ TrueMove H             Infra  40    270 Mbit/s  39      ▂▄__  WPA2 802.1X
        88:1D:FC:30:4A:3E     .@ TrueMove H             Infra  100   270 Mbit/s  39      ▂▄__  WPA2 802.1X
        00:42:68:13:54:5E     .@ TrueMove H             Infra  100   270 Mbit/s  34      ▂▄__  WPA2 802.1X
        64:F6:9D:3A:09:CE     .@ TrueMove H             Infra  60    270 Mbit/s  29      ▂___  WPA2 802.1X
        64:F6:9D:39:F7:7E     .@ TrueMove H             Infra  60    270 Mbit/s  25      ▂___  WPA2 802.1X

And

``
nmcli dev wifi connect "   .@ TrueMove H"
Error: Failed to add/activate new connection: Failed to determine AP security information

``

I tried ChatGPT, Claude, web search and everything it fails to do so

Last edited by al3rez (2025-07-07 09:52:29)

SimonJ

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From: Alicante, Spain

Registered: 2021-05-11

Posts: 310

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Re: nmcli Unable to Connect to Public Wi-Fi with Spaces, @ and . in SSID

I have not tried this but you may need to escape the spaces with a backslash, possibly also the dot.

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