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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. No problems here... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Mine works at two different locations that I set up.

  2. Re:QC? by antifoidulus · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Their reputation for stuff just working has been in the shitter for the past year at least. Almost everything they release has been plagued with bug after bug after bug. iPhone 2.0, Mobile Me, Leopard the list goes on. Hell, I haven't even been able to get the Genius thing to work, all I get is an extremely unhelpful 4010 error....

    Maybe Steve's policy of not significantly increasing engineering staff is finally biting Apple in the ass. I know that when I use my Mac nowadays its hard to remember that I'm NOT using a Microsoft product, Apple's stuff is just as buggy.

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    Monstar L
  3. WPA on the iphone/ipod was a joke anyway. by Average · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A real geek has a long random key for WPA, and passes it around on a pen drive.

    Except the time I brought a Touch home from work for a while.

    Copy and paste? What do you mean, no copy and paste? One of the key "insanely great" f'ing innovations of the 1984 Macintosh, and it can't be done?

    Shook my head at that one.

  4. Re:Problem seems to be with D-Link routers... by phoxix · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why the hell did this get promoted to the front page?

    We have personally confirmed the failing on three DLink models, and one Linksys model so far. Thread shows other Linksys models and Belkin models as well it appears.

    http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8066893#8066893

    Thats why it made the front page.