Trying to connect to an eero wifi 6 mesh network with no luck. Ethernet works and I get this:
root@balena:~# nmcli connection show
NAME UUID TYPE DEVICE
Wired connection 1 d184cdd1-7df4-33c4-8364-928941ef7a4b ethernet eth0
supervisor0 ba51bf99-afaa-4711-975d-9da8c64deb89 bridge supervisor0
Terry’s iPhone Network 006c9dbf-a254-44d3-b2c3-2316306045dd bluetooth –
balena-wifi-01 983466c0-806d-361b-9535-e4b548cf0d62 wifi –
balena-wifi-01 8e692be6-b23f-3502-93a0-0cc5c4331893 wifi –
root@balena:~# ^C
root@balena:~#
The SSID is at a friends lake house so I am avoiding changing it but it has a space and a apostrophe.
Here is the same network from Windows 10:
SSID: Dee’s Den
Protocol: Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax)
Security type: WPA2-Personal
Network band: 5 GHz
Network channel: 149
Link speed (Receive/Transmit): 1201/1021 (Mbps)
Link-local IPv6 address: fe80::6018:8be6:b3e1:23bd%17
IPv4 address: 192.168.4.118
IPv4 DNS servers: 75.75.75.75
75.75.76.76
Manufacturer: Intel Corporation
Description: Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6 AX201 160MHz
Driver version: 22.10.0.7
Physical address (MAC): C0-B8-83-9B-79-A9
and here is the /mnt/boot/system-connections/balena-wifi-01 info and it looks correct
connection]
id=balena-wifi-01
type=wifi
I calculated it this way:
echo -n “Dee’s Den” | tr -d “\n” | od -A n -t x1 | tr -d " " | tr -d “\n”
and got this 44656527732044656e
which of course did not work.
Trying your string I get:
root@balena:~# nmcli --ask dev wifi connect 446565E28099732044656E0A
Error: No network with SSID ‘446565E28099732044656E0A’ found.
root@balena:~# nmcli --ask dev wifi connect “446565E28099732044656E0A”
Error: No network with SSID ‘446565E28099732044656E0A’ found.
I can connect this way but not a good idea:
root@balena:~# nmcli --ask dev wifi connect 98:ED:7E:22:9B:C7
Password: ***********
Device ‘wlan0’ successfully activated with ‘e6f3870e-2217-4e38-9523-acf43af54855’.
Hey, good to hear it now worked for you eventually!
One question: could it be, that you manually typed this SSID? Because it’s actually not a standard apastrophe, that your friend used, but a “pretty” one. Look at the difference of the one you used in the config and the one from Windows:
Dee**'s Den vs Dee’**s Den