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John Chang · 12-29-2011, 07:37 PM

I got a Kindle Basic today. Setting it up, I immediately encountered a problem: I need to type a pipe symbol (|) for my wifi network's 64-character password, and the Kindle keyboard doesn't have it! Yes, I could change the router password, but frankly I'm unwilling to take the time to change the password on dozens of devices just to accommodate the Kindle. Also, my old Linksys WRT54GL doesn't support a guest network.

So, how can the pipe character be entered into the Kindle? Is there some kind of escape that allows ascii character codes (pipe is decimal 124) to be entered manually? Can I ssh into the Kindle and modify the appropriate system file(s) to connect to my network? Or can I use an external computer keyboard to enter the character into the setup app? I'm willing to go to a different router (without the | in its password) to set it up for use.

12-29-2011, 07:37 PM	#34
John Chang Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2011 Device: Kindle Basic 2011	I got a Kindle Basic today. Setting it up, I immediately encountered a problem: I need to type a pipe symbol (\|) for my wifi network's 64-character password, and the Kindle keyboard doesn't have it! Yes, I could change the router password, but frankly I'm unwilling to take the time to change the password on dozens of devices just to accommodate the Kindle. Also, my old Linksys WRT54GL doesn't support a guest network. So, how can the pipe character be entered into the Kindle? Is there some kind of escape that allows ascii character codes (pipe is decimal 124) to be entered manually? Can I ssh into the Kindle and modify the appropriate system file(s) to connect to my network? Or can I use an external computer keyboard to enter the character into the setup app? I'm willing to go to a different router (without the \| in its password) to set it up for use. Last edited by John Chang; 12-29-2011 at 08:27 PM. Reason: "jailbreak" not currently possible, but ssh is.