WPA2 and special characters - '£'
Hi folks, first post.. 🙂
Getting stuck connecting to my home wi-fi with my MacBook. The wireless network uses WPA2 and a 63-character password, which is a random string of ASCII characters. The password happens to include a pound ('£') sign, which the Netgear access point accepted. All my Windows machines also connect to it fine.
However, my MacBook is not allowing me to input this character - all I get is a quick bleeping noise. It just refuses to put it in the password field, whether I'm trying to type or paste it in. (I believe I also can't type in a ';' either, which is again part of the password. Same situation - every other system has accepted it.)
It seems Snow Leopard is too pedantic about which ASCII characters to accept. Are allowed WPA2 characters not explicitly defined internationally? There seems to be a grey area regarding nonstandard, special characters.
Would you advise I change the password, even though this is all extra hassle? 🙂
Cheers,
Andy.
Getting stuck connecting to my home wi-fi with my MacBook. The wireless network uses WPA2 and a 63-character password, which is a random string of ASCII characters. The password happens to include a pound ('£') sign, which the Netgear access point accepted. All my Windows machines also connect to it fine.
However, my MacBook is not allowing me to input this character - all I get is a quick bleeping noise. It just refuses to put it in the password field, whether I'm trying to type or paste it in. (I believe I also can't type in a ';' either, which is again part of the password. Same situation - every other system has accepted it.)
It seems Snow Leopard is too pedantic about which ASCII characters to accept. Are allowed WPA2 characters not explicitly defined internationally? There seems to be a grey area regarding nonstandard, special characters.
Would you advise I change the password, even though this is all extra hassle? 🙂
Cheers,
Andy.
15" MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.4)
