Wireless networking and multiple users

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I'm implementing a wirelss network for about a half
dozen machines running Win2000; each has a Linksys
Wireless PCI access card. It installed fine and worked
under an administrator account, but as soon as I switched
to a user account, the wireless cards couldn't access
their config files or even be detected by the provided
monitor program (though Device Manager thought they were
still installed). Switched back to the admin account,
they worked fine. Linkysys claims this is a Windows
problem, not theirs. Any advice would be appreciated.

Spencer
 
What if you reinstall the driver with the other user logged in? Are you
getting any error messages or events in the event log?
 
Spencer said:
I'm implementing a wirelss network for about a half
dozen machines running Win2000; each has a Linksys
Wireless PCI access card. It installed fine and worked
under an administrator account, but as soon as I switched
to a user account, the wireless cards couldn't access
their config files or even be detected by the provided
monitor program (though Device Manager thought they were
still installed). Switched back to the admin account,
they worked fine. Linkysys claims this is a Windows
problem, not theirs. Any advice would be appreciated.

Spencer
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I'm experiencing exactly this problem and am finding no solutions.
The responses to your post don't help at all. So the question is,
how do you get a Linksys PCI 802.11b card (WMP11) to work on
Windows 2000 for anything besides the Administrator account?

There must be some registry hack or file permission change that
will allow users to operate the card. Regular network cards work
in the same config, and so do Linksys USB 802.11b's.
 
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