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-rw-r--r--docs/examples/wireless-wpa5
-rw-r--r--docs/netcfg-profiles.txt7
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/examples/wireless-wpa b/docs/examples/wireless-wpa
index 20f5509..e2511f3 100644
--- a/docs/examples/wireless-wpa
+++ b/docs/examples/wireless-wpa
@@ -2,8 +2,13 @@ CONNECTION='wireless'
DESCRIPTION='A simple WPA encrypted wireless connection'
INTERFACE='wlan0'
SECURITY='wpa'
+
ESSID='MyNetwork'
+## Uncomment if the supplied ESSID is hexadecimal
+#ESSID_TYPE='hex'
KEY='WirelessKey'
+
IP='dhcp'
+
# Uncomment this if your ssid is hidden
#HIDDEN=yes
diff --git a/docs/netcfg-profiles.txt b/docs/netcfg-profiles.txt
index 5e11076..def2a37 100644
--- a/docs/netcfg-profiles.txt
+++ b/docs/netcfg-profiles.txt
@@ -159,7 +159,12 @@ SECURITY (required for security of 'wep', 'wpa', 'wpa-configsection' or 'wpa-con
KEY (required for SECURITY of 'wpa' or 'wep' only)
: Wireless encryption key.
ESSID (this or AP is required)
-: Name of network to connect to.
+: Name of network to connect to, or hexadecimal digits (see
+ 'ESSID_TYPE')
+ESSID_TYPE (optional, defaults to 'ascii')
+: Set to 'ascii' or 'hex', if set to 'hex', ESSID will be interpreted
+ as an hexadecimal SSID and written unquoted to the wpa_supplicant
+ configuration file.
AP (this or ESSID is required)
: AP (BSSID) of the network to connect to.
HIDDEN (optional)