Re: Unable to make an Apple iPod Touch connect to my new Linksys WRT54GL wireless router.

On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:41:16 -0800, Ant <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Hello.
>
>I am trying to set up my client's iPod Touch (bought it over a year ago;
>using firmware v2.2 (5G77)) to connect to my new encrypted Linksys
>WRT54GL wireless router. After we entered the password (case sensitive
>too and WPA shared key) like five times, it said "Failed to join
>'FooBarWRT54GL'" right away.
>
>The router uses latest firmware v4.30.13 with these wireless settings:
>Wireless Network Mode: Mixed (want to support both B and devices/clients).
>Wirless Network Name (SSID) Example: FooBarWRT54GL
>Wireless Channel: 1-2.412GHZ
>Security Mode: WPA2 Personal
>WPA Algorithms: TKIP+AES
>WPA Shared Key Example: Abunchofletters aspacetoo
>
>I assume this device can do WPA Personal since it saw the WAP and asked
>for a password. We had no problems with an over year old 15" MacBook Pro
>(2.4 Ghz and Mac OS X 10.5.8), and it was easy as cake.
>
>Any ideas? Thank you in advance.

Is there any chance it's a "2nd Gen" iPod Touch? Apparently, there's a
known issue with those and WPA2. If it's not that, a Google search
also turned up an issue where even though the keyboard shows all caps,
the characters entered are lower case unless each is accompanied by
the shift key. Probably a good handful of other possibilities, too,
most of which are likely iPod related more so than Linksys related.

http://www.google.com/search?q=ipod+touch+wpa2