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["Winders, Timothy A" <twinders AT southplainscollege.edu>]

I have an original iPad with iOS 5 installed.  I have performed a reset so 
it’s at factory defaults.

I can manually join eduroam locally with the expected server certificate 
warning.  (Just a test to make sure wifi is working and can join the local 
network).

I attempted to install our CAT configuration and get the error message 
"Cannot Install Profile.  Safari could not install a profile due to an 
unknown error." (expected with the current CAT 1.1 configuration).

If you let me know which XML snippets I can try to remove from our 
configuration, I can try to push a modified version to this iPad to see if 
that fixes the problem.  Or, if you have your modified XML publicly 
available, I’m happy to install it (knowing it won’t work, simply testing 
that it will install).

-- 
Tim Winders

Associate Dean of Information Technology
South Plains College
(806) 716-2369







On 8/19/15, 6:46 AM, "Stefan Winter" 
<stefan.winter AT restena.lu>
 wrote:

>Hello,
>
>some of you may recall the user question on this list about an iPad (1st
>gen) with iOS 5. The user had problems with the profile download since
>version 1.1 was released.
>
>In short term, a note for completeness' sake: I mailed the user with a
>modified profile which did not contain the iOS 6 specific content. I
>then asked him numerous times whether the installation now worked. He
>did send replies, both times without telling me what the outcome was. At
>that point I considered the case unsupportable and got back to doing
>more interesting things.
>
>This means we don't know for sure if the XML snippet that is only
>recognised on iOS 6+ was responsible for the breakage; or if maybe the
>user just had a unique problem on this very device we couldn't figure out.
>
>In the longer term though, this raises the question about how far back
>in history do still care about obsolete products.
>
>For example, Windows XP had an official end of support date; we
>discontinued our own support several months after that date.
>
>In general, I believe that following vendors' obsolesence / end of life
>announcements is a reasonable strategy.
>
>I have just found the following Apple statement on the web:
>
>https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201624
>
>which looks like a stable point of reference with regular updates. It
>indicates that right now, all iPhones below 4 are considered
>vintage/obsolete by Apple. I'm inclined not to investigate problem
>reports about such old Apple devices (read: products declared either
>vintage or obsolete) in the future.
>
>I'm also inclined to reply to people with problems on supported hardware
>that they should first ensure to have the latest iOS release.
>
>There is no iPad on that list yet; the iPad (1st gen) went on sale 2010
>and was discontinued in March 02, 2011 with its successor. So my
>guesstimate is that it has another half year of life before it becomes
>vintage.
>
>So, if more problem reports with iOS 5 come in, I will again try to get
>a hold of the user in question and debug problems with them. But I will
>also be happy when Apple updates their product EoL page above and
>relieves me of that duty. :-) It looks like this won't be before 2018
>though:
>
>The current low watermark of iOS versions for the various types of iOS
>devices which are not yet vintage/obsolete is:
>
>iPhone: iPhone 4 - iOS 7.1.2 (*)
>
>iPod touch: 3rd gen - iOS 5.1.1 (until approx. mid 2018), then 4th gen
>and iOS 6.1.6
>
>iPad: 1st gen - iOS 5.1.1 (until approx. Mar 2016), then iPad 2 and iOS
>8.4.1
>
>Please reply to this message on 
>cat-users AT geant.net
> if you think that
>this policy is too harsh - or too generous :-)
>
>Greetings,
>
>Stefan Winter
>
>(*) If you're really into Apple timelines, you'll notice that Apple is
>inconsistent here: the iPhone 3G(S) was sold until Fall 2012, which
>means it should not become vintage before Fall 2017. But for some magic
>reason, it already is vintage right now. Or I'm lost in their
>definitions of vintage/obsolete/discontinued/not manufactured/
>
>-- 
>Stefan WINTER
>Ingenieur de Recherche
>Fondation RESTENA - Réseau Téléinformatique de l'Education Nationale et
>de la Recherche
>6, rue Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi
>L-1359 Luxembourg
>
>Tel: +352 424409 1
>Fax: +352 422473
>
>PGP key updated to 4096 Bit RSA - I will encrypt all mails if the
>recipient's key is known to me
>
>http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xC0DE6A358A39DC66

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