Wireless LAN only with Administrator right?

[Stefan]

Hi, I found the question in some news groups, but never a
solution, so may be here: I have Laptop running Win2000
Prof. and installed a PCMIA Wireless LAN card. To connect
to the Network I obviously initially have to be logged in
as Administrator, then I can log out and log in as normal
user and use the wireless network. If I don't log in as
Admin first, the card won't connect to the network, it
sees everything, but just doesn't connect. Can I somehow
enable the connection for every user without making every
user an administrator?

Thanks for any advice,
Stefan

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Users shouldn't need admin rights to use a wireless LAN....just to install
the hardware for it. If it's installed already, left plugged in, and they
just log in, what happens?

 

[Stefan]

Users shouldn't need admin rights to use a wireless

LAN....just to install the hardware for it. If it's
installed already, left plugged in, and they
just log in, what happens?

If you start the laptop with the (previouly installed)
wireless LAN PCMIA network card and you are not an
administrator, everything seems to be fine at first: the
network card detects the availble wireless network, but if
you click on connect, it won't connect to the network. If
you log in as an administrator you can connect to the
network and everything works fine, than you log out, log
in as a normal user and the wireless LAN works fine ...
this sounds for me like some initial service to start up
the network connection has to have admin rights ... and
this service keeps running even if you log out and can
therefore be used by other user afterwards ...

Hope this makes sense ... Thanks, Stefan