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WAX615 WiFi password issue after upgrade to 10.3.1.5
After a WAX615 upgrade to 10.3.1.5, I can no longer have the special character " - " aka hyphen/minus symbol in my WiFi password. I discovered this when adding a WAX615 to Insight, I get a "Devic...
Problem fixed with fw 10.3.1.8 which was available via Insight this morning.
WAX615 Firmware version 10.3.1.8
Bug Fixes
This firmware addresses the following bugs:
- Fixes the issue where clients cannot connect after a firmware upgrade to version 10.3.1.5.
- Fixes the issue where an SSID passphrase is restricted to contain only a limited set of special characters after a firmware upgrade to version 10.3.1.7. Now, any of the special characters can be used in the passphrase: ~ ` ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) - = _ + [ ] { } \ | ; ' : ' , . / < > ?
The odd message is one thing, the other reads like a hmmmmm
The standard is 100% clear and applicable:
Each character in the pass-phrase must have an encoding in the range of 32 to 126 (decimal), inclusive. (IEEE Std. 802.11i-2004, Annex H.4.1) The space character is included in this range.
There is no reason, a " - " aka hyphen/minus should be refused.
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