Pipe symbol not working in pfsense shell

[kiweegie]

Hi all

possibly this has been answered elsewhere but have checked both forum and wiki to no avail, and google search turned up nothing either except for a possibly related issue where user got a US keyboard layout despite choosing another.

I have pfsense 2.0.1 installed in Virtualbox running on a Linux host on a Lenovo T520 laptop (with UK keyboard layout). Pipe symbol on the lappy works fine except within pfsense shell. I've tried ALT+124 and also every other keyboard combo I can think of but nothing works. I can access via SSH ok and get the pipe that way but would like to know what I'm doing wrong or if this is a known issue under virtualbox perhaps. Hoping someone has seen this before or can point me in the right direction.

Thanks, Tom

[jimp]

Must be related to the keyboard layout as it's fine here even in vbox, I use it all the time.

Try running:

kbdmap

And selecting your actual keyboard mapping there.

[kiweegie]

Thanks Jimp, that did the trick nicely.