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Re: wireless problem with regular users

#476
From: Verstrooid Profke
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 17:18
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Cassy wrote:
> Verstrooid Profke wrote:
> 
>> Cassy wrote:
>>
>>> Verstrooid Profke wrote:
>>>
>>>> %System% wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have a Belkin 54g router and pci card. WEP and MAC address 
>>>>> filtering are
>>>>> enabled. When booting my computer and logging on as a regular user, 
>>>>> the
>>>>> wireless connection is available but no connection is made. This is 
>>>>> only
>>>>> possible after logging in as an administrator, logging out, and 
>>>>> logging in
>>>>> as that user. What can the cause of this be? How do I resolve it? 
>>>>> OS:Win2k
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> same problem over here,
>>>> and in this newsgroup someone else also mentioned windows XP.
>>>>
>>>> clearly a driver problem from belkin.
>>>>
>>>> Solution: Throw out the pci-card, and buy a non-belkin  one.
>>>>
>>>> OR: try to convince belkin to update their software.
>>>>
>>>> P.S: because of this bug it is not possible to logon on to a domain 
>>>> without having logged in first locally on  your pc as administrator.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Or just copy the users profile to the administrator's profile ...
>>>
>>
>>
>> Now this interests me: what do you mean?
>> make the user an administrator?
>> or do you know the exact thing i need to do with my 
>> registry/settingsfiles/??? to make my NIC  work _without_ logging in?
>>
>>
>>
> You could try making the user an administrator. And if that doesn't work 
> out, try looking in c:\ > Documents and Settings
> Normally everything of the user profile is stored in there, so you could 
> try copying settings from the Administrator to the normal user.
> 
> (never tried it myself, but I would look in that direction)
> 

I have done this:

installed (freeware) version of FireDaemon
made a service which lauches %windir%\bcwltry.exe at boottime
and problem is solved.
pc is now even reachable without being logged on, which is exactly what 
i want.


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