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Users Report Faulty WPA In 2nd-Gen IPod Touch

Posted by kdawson on from the soft-touch dept.

jesuscash writes "It seems early adopters of the new iPod Touch are out of luck when they bring it home and attempt to connect it to their WPA/WPA2 secured network. Reading this Apple forum thread shows that many tests with different configurations show a no-go on WPA. Some of the last entries give the best clue, revealing a 'received deauthentication' error in their router logs. Apple has yet to respond."

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  1. Single apple ipod touch bug slashdot worthy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Can I get a WTF?!

    1. Re:Single apple ipod touch bug slashdot worthy? by jamesh · · Score: 5, Funny

      Can I get a WTF?!

      If you can't get WPA or WPA2, then I think your chances of getting a WTF are close to zero.

    2. Re:Single apple ipod touch bug slashdot worthy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      .. That WAS a car analogy, right?

      I'm not sure, you lost me at anal.

    3. Re:Single apple ipod touch bug slashdot worthy? by kirbysuperstar · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'll probably get modded down for this, but there seems to have been a stream of negative Apple/iPod Touch articles lately

      It's actually a subtle counter to Engadget's "We compare the iPhone to a plasma TV and find out which is better" articles.

    4. Re:Single apple ipod touch bug slashdot worthy? by Babbster · · Score: 5, Funny

      As for your comparison with Microsoft, consider what you would be saying if this had happened with the Zune.

      Is this one of those "if a tree falls in the forest would it make a sound" questions?

  2. Step 28 ... by Random+BedHead+Ed · · Score: 3, Funny

    Step 28 of the Apple Product Cycle. Step 28 for the iPhone was the chipset, so maybe that's the problem with these scratches ... er, blue screens ... er, faulty plastic backs ... er, WPA network errors as well.

  3. Stop the presses! by kiwioddBall · · Score: 4, Funny

    Someone released some software with a bug in it!!! Thats never happened before!!!

    1. Re:Stop the presses! by ColdWetDog · · Score: 2, Funny

      Apple has failed to test its product properly before releasing it.

      I'll bet you a month's subscription to Slashdot that it works on Airports ...

      They probably tested it with all the Airport's they could find in the building. What's your problem?

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  4. Re:QC? by antifoidulus · · Score: 2, Funny

    Lets see, in immediate sight I have 2 mac pros, a powermac g4 and a powermac g5 with a macbook pro sitting on my desk and an iPhone in my pocket. So yeah, I do know a little something about macs, as we use them at work and I have found their server offerings to be utter crap. On the Desktop Leopard isn't terrible, certainly better than Vista, but the first couple iterations were pretty buggy. And you cannot argue that the iPhone 2.0(and the first batch of 3gs) wasn't buggy, Steve Jobs has even gone on record saying that mobileme was buggy, and the list goes on. For a company that advertises that they have no bugs, they certainly have a lot.

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  5. Re:No problems here... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    let me check...yep...mine too

  6. Zune - Engineers - Apple Software is bad... by TheNetAvenger · · Score: 2, Funny

    Zune - It takes Apple engineers to make it look good.

    I know the WiFi is a latent 'me too' feature of the iPod, but holy crap Apple, between this and your handling of 3G you are starting to make your engineers look really stupid.

    (PS This is news worthy, as I know a few people that have been waiting for this device and turning off WPA is probably not going to be an option for them at home, let alone at work where is mandatory.)