[OSX-Users] Re: iOS 5.0.1 and ecs-wlan?? Re: logging in to one's iPod/iphone with prompt?

[David Tarrant]

OK, with further investigation I have found out the following:

mc, the device in question was last seen on the 9th of November on ECS-WLAN (hope you don't mind me saying)

On the 10th Apple released IOS 5.0.1.

I recommend forgetting (from settings) ECS-WLAN and eduroam, thus hopefully clearing any bad settings, turn off wifi for 5 minutes and then try again. 

If this still doesn't work (including after a total reboot), I'm afraid you might have to "Forget Network Settings" on the device and try than. 

I am unable to replicate a complete non-joining on any of mine (or Andy's IOS devices), only the switching problem (which you are not having).

I hope this helps. Further to this the actual device will be required to attempt to debug with. 

Many Thanks

Dave T


On 21 Nov 2011, at 17:05, dr. m.c. schraefel wrote:

> Thank you all.
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> let me reframe the question:
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> has anyone with ios 5.0.1 experienced any challenges getting onto ecs-wlan?
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> just curious if the small upgrade may have done something weird with the packets? 
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> On 21 Nov 2011, at 16:45, Steve Harris wrote:
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>> If you have a Mac (or Linux box) on the same network you can correlate them using the magic of multicast DNS:
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>> Find the "name" of your iPhone, in the About page, mine is "StevePhone", but most people are more inventive than that :)
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>> Run: arp -n <phone-name>.local
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>> arp will print the IP address, and the mac address used to connect to it
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>> e.g.
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>> $ arp -n StevePhone.local
>> ? (192.168.2.145) at 5c:59:48:xx:xx:xx on en1 ifscope [ethernet]
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>> if you have punctuation in the phone name then it might be a little trickier, but you can always temporarily change the name to something with just a-z characters and use that.
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>> - Steve
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>> On 2011-11-21, at 16:31, Chris Andrews wrote:
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>>> Then I'm afraid the only way you can check that with ifconfig is to jailbreak your device, install sshd, then ssh to root at 127.0.0.1 with password "alpine", then install ifconfig as well. 
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>>> Warning: This may leave you open to malware. Plus jailbreaking voids warranty, yadda yadda yadda.
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>>> I have never encountered a situation where the MAC in about is not the MAC of the device. However, for verification, you could try the original box it came in, if you still have it. That may have a MAC on it.
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>>> Chris
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>>> On 21 Nov 2011, at 16:26, dr. m.c. schraefel wrote:
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>>>> thank you yes i know where the mac address is: i want to confirm that what the about box says it is, is what it is. 
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>>>> thanks
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>>>> mc
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>>>> On 21 Nov 2011, at 16:25, Chris Andrews wrote:
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>>>>> You can't SSH into an iDevice unless you've jailbroken it, nor can you get a local terminal. The MAC address is in Settings > General > About > Wi-Fi Address.
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>>>>> Chris
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>>>>> On 21 Nov 2011, at 16:16, dr. m.c. schraefel wrote:
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>>>>>> i have prompt as a terminal ap.
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>>>>>> it always asks for the server, then login and password - so wondering how does one specify their iphone as the server??
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>>>>>> with thanks
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> mc
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> (why am i doing this? i want to do an ipconfig to confirm the mac address of the device since, having registered the one that shows in about with ecs, it's not connecting - i get an "unable to connect" - that's all i can think is the issue. Thanks)
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