Wifi connection essid with "space"

Patchbox OS
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Hi all,

this may be a lame question, but I have a wifi network at home I was trying to connect to via parchbox’ wifi function, unfortunately the ESSID has a space in the name, something like “Name of_wifi_network”, and what I get is that patchboxos cannot connect to wifi “Name”.
I tried editing wpa_supplicant.conf with no luck. Same result with nmcli, unfortunately.

Could you throw any suggestions at me on how to connect to the network as I am not sure what am I missing?

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Try using nmcli with double quotes on the name argument:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/363982/nmcli-command-takes-only-first-string-of-ssid

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I’m having the same issue, the script fails because my SSID has a space in it: I’ll post some logs if someone wants them

Network scan started.
Connecting to NetComm 5983...
/usr/bin/raspi-config: line 2780: [: THIS_WAS_MY_PASSWORD: integer expression expected
Error: No network with SSID 'MY_SSID_BEFORE_THE_SPACE' found.
Trying to connect to WiFi network (1/10).
Trying to connect to WiFi network (2/10).

Trying to use nmcli gives the following error:

Error: Connection activation failed: Secrets were required, but not provided.