Thank you for the response. Yes I knew that there might be some 'escaped' characters. First off, I'm wondering why the single '\' in my SSID turns into '\\\\' four backslashes? And I suppose I could have been a little more specific by saying that this is happening on a Pi3 with the 2-26-16 Jessie. I...

Are special characters in a wifi password treated the same as normal characters? My SSID is "C:\MyDoom.exe" ( No Quotes), but my Pi3 with the latest Jessie shows it as "C:\\\\MyDoom.exe" (again, no quotes). Notice the three extra backslashes? My wifi password is a 63 character string with special ch...

Hello All, Just got my Pi 3, and burned Jessie 2-26-16 on a micro SD card. When I try to connect to Wifi, I see my network, but it's name is a little strange. My Network SSID is "C:\MyDoom.exe". ( No Quotes). The PI3 sees the SSID as "C:\\\\MyDoom.exe" (Again, no quotes). My passphrase is a 63 chara...

Any body got ideas on this in the US?

Excellent, Thank you. Hard to see that little space on a forum such as this. On another forum I frequent (mp3car.com) the forum puts in random spaces. You have to be very careful there in typing in something that someone posted if you need it to be EXACTLY as they typed it. There have been multiple ...

Hello all, first post, please be gentle. I'm a complete noob here, I'll admit. I am an Automation Engineer, but have had little to do with any software programming since the early 90's. My realm includes larger horsepower motors and Drives to run them. I do some PLC stuff, but not too much. To the p...