Hey guys and gals,
Just wanted to get all your opinions on this: When do you think the next update for the touch will be? Also, what do you think it will have? I am hoping the whole "add/edit calendar" bug fix comes out with the next update. Maybe even support for 802.1X wifi!
is it possible for an update (firmware) to add or enable the 802.1X wifi already in the touch?
All the Wifi in the Touch is available now, anything else would require new hardware.
is it possible for an update (firmware) to add or enable the 802.1X wifi already in the touch?
I dont think that is true. Many articles are saying it HAS 802.1X but it is not enabled for some reason. You may be right, but I am just going by what I have heard.
Here is one excerpt from an article
"And while Devicescape isn't emphasizing this, the company told me in a briefing a few days ago that they had unearthed the business-grade Wi-Fi authentication client software in the iPhone OS that's also found in Mac OS X. This client - an 802.1X supplicant, if you must know the technical name - would let iPhone users connect to Wi-Fi networks that don't use a gateway page or simple static shared encryption keys. 802.1X allows a device to connect to a Wi-Fi network with a user name and password (among other kinds of credentials), and then the network system assigns a unique encryption key to that user. It's the only safe approach for larger networks, and is used widely. Connect could provide a tool for corporate users to connect their iPhones securely to their work networks, too - not just to hotspots - if Devicescape opts to enable that feature."
Here is the link to the full article.
http://db.tidbits.com/article/9182
the only wi-fi in the touch is 802.11g, which is already enabled. if they did an update o the hardware to add 802.11n it would be completely pointless and drain the battery faster the only advantage of n over g or b is for file transfers, and probably for mst people's internet connections even 802.11g is already overkill.
Please people stop replying to honest questions about 802.1x if you don't know what it is.
802.1x is *completely unrelated* to 802.11g, 802.11n or anything else. It's an authentication protocol used in enterprise grade networks and many universities/colleges.
The touch does not appear to contain the supplicant to do it - it contains the UI (easy to reenable by editing a couple of plist files) but not the backend (possibly bits of it, but the EAP stuff is definately not there). You can't even compile the darwin source to add it, since important functions are missing from the OS that it requires.