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Re: wireless problem with regular users

#481
From: Cassy
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 09:44
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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)

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From: Cassy <cassy*HaalDezedingenmetSterretjeeuhsweg@linux.be>
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