Admin problem with wireless G card

[melperk]

I just got a Linksys WPC54G card. I have an HP laptop from work running Win2K. I have two accounts, regular (no admin rights) and my admin account. I have tried every method of installing the software and hardware ("run as", granting admin rights to my regular account, etc.) Here is the bottom line. When I am in an account without admin rights, the Linksys software thinks I have yet to pop the card in for the first time, however Windows hardware manager sees the card just fine (no red X's, no yellow "!&quot. When I am in an admin account, everything works fine. I believe this is a Linksys bug, and I think I could dork with the registry to try and fix it, but so far my attempts have failed. I am now in "workaround" mode. Here is my question

Right now I can do "run as" and run the Linksys software as my admin account, but I have to enter my password every time, and I don't want to keep doing that. Is there any way to automatically run a single program with under the admin account at startup, like a script or something. I would like to set something up just once, and have it work without my input every time.

Thanks,
Mel

 

[Wirdo]

is your user with non admin rights a guest account? If so then it dosnt save any changes you make with that account (hadware/software settings)

 

[melperk]

my user account is on a domain other than the machine domain (does that make it a guest account?). The user account does have its own "Documents and Settings" folder, and "Start Menu" folder, etc.

I have pretty much given up on going through the front door because I have tried all the tricks I know. For example, with my USB Palm device, I had to grant admin rights to my user account, install the software, plug the device in the USB slot, and let it install. Then I took away the admin rights, and everything was cool. In this case, when I take away the admin rights the Linksys software thinks I have never plugged the card in (even though Windows sees it). I can do "run as administrator" on the Linksys software only, and it will work. So it seems to be what the Linksys utility can see in the registry under my user account.

I would be satisfied if it were possible to run the Linksys utility automatically at startup under the admin account, perhaps with some script that runs at login. Is something like that possible?

 

[melperk]

Anyone?

 

[bcastner]

I have been researching this Linksys driver issue but it is a little difficult because I cannot test it.

It is clearly a permissions issue, and if you could go to the Linksys Forum and look at the Discussion of the WMP11 near the top you can try some experiments.

What I hope is that the driver does not use raw sockets, because if it does I do not think there is hope of a solution without a new driver.