WPA-PSK TKIP

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WPA-PSK TKIP

Does iPhone support WPA-PSK authentication?

If so, does it support TKIP encryption?

I'm having a heck of a time trying to set up my work network on the iPhone, though my MacBook Pro handles it just fine.

Thanks in advance.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Jul 2, 2007 12:15 PM

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Jose M

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Jul 2, 2007 12:19 PM in response to dirtloves

Here are the supported features with wifi.

Use open and closed 802.11b/g networks
Connect to secure networks using WEP, WPA, and WPA2 encryption
Configure connections with DHCP, BootP, and Static IP addressing
Offers Proxy Server compatibility

I am not familiar with TKIP

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Jul 2, 2007 12:52 PM in response to Jose M

TKIP encryption, as I understand it (and I don't) is a type of encryption used with WPA/WPA2.

I'm not able to connect at all to my WPA-PSK network, I enter the key and it does not allow me to join. I've seen lots of suggestions to change to HEX mode and enter a $ before the key, but it seems HEX/ASCII modes are a feature of WEP not WPA.

Has anybody been able to connect to WPA-PSK yet? With TKIP specifically?

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iGreek

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Jul 2, 2007 12:52 PM in response to dirtloves

i have not seen support for WPA-PSK TKIP if your router and other devices support WEP 128bit encription use that... anything other then 128bit will not work.. took 2 hours of fussing to figure it out

MacBook Pro 15inch Mac OS X (10.4.10)

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dirtloves Author

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Jul 2, 2007 12:56 PM in response to iGreek

This is a enterprise WAP, I can't ask them to run something as unsecure as WEP 128-bit.

If this is an iPhone limitation, it's going to cause problems.

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msquires

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Jul 2, 2007 1:51 PM in response to dirtloves

I have a Linksys WRT54G running WPA-PSK and TKIP. I was able to login, no problem with my iPhone. This was true for two different networks, two different keys.

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Jul 2, 2007 3:05 PM in response to iGreek

i have not seen support for WPA-PSK TKIP if your
router and other devices support WEP 128bit
encription use that... anything other then 128bit
will not work.. took 2 hours of fussing to figure it
out

MacBook Pro 15inch
Mac OS X (10.4.10)

That is incorrect.

I am running WPA and WPA2 (both on Apple wireless base stations), and was able to connect to both. The WPA one uses TKIP.

Make sure you do not have the new ExtremeN if set to "N-only". It will not connect in that case, whether you are using 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz. In fact, it will probably never even see the AP in that case.

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dirtloves Author

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Jul 3, 2007 6:00 AM in response to sumocomputers

The wap I'm using is a Cisco Aironet 1130AG, regular old 802.11G... when I enter the password (which isn't hex, but is 0-F) it just fails to connect.

Very frustrating, as all of the specs I've read seem to indicate this should work.

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dirtloves Author

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Jul 3, 2007 9:05 AM in response to dirtloves

Well, solved the issue... apparently the password was case sensitive.

Embarrasing, but there it is.

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