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Users Report Faulty WPA In 2nd-Gen IPod Touch
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."
Because WEP is horribly, horribly broken, and the only two options an iPod touch has of connecting to an access point are to use WEP, which is almost as bad as plaintext at this point, or use plaintext.
... That WAS a car analogy, right?
To use the ever-present car analogy, it would be like one of a car's most advertised features only working if you removed all the locks, and then complaining that somebody covered it by saying "A single bug is worthy of coverage? 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.
Mine works at two different locations that I set up.
Actually reading the linked thread (I know, I know..) the problem seems more linked to D-Link routers + iPod Touch, not iPod Touch can't do WPA. "Apple has yet to respond"? I don't see that anyone on that thread filled a bug report, how the hell do you expect them to respond unless you tell them???
Why the hell did this get promoted to the front page?
Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate
Wipe the apple fanboi drivel from your chin, the ipod touch is getting slammed recently because apple have introduced a number of bugs for it with their awful 2.1 update. I suggest you check their forums to see just how many problems have occurred since this rubbish `upgrade'. You'll note apple has not acknowledged a single one. Playing the microsoft game of pretending there are no issues. They also prevent you from rolling back to a previous version. So it is tough-shit if you upgraded.
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.
My touch 2g with firmware 2.1.1 works fine with wpa2.
On a long enough timeline. The survival rate for everyone drops to zero. Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, 1996
Is this one of those "if a tree falls in the forest would it make a sound" questions?