Wireless and Domains

I have a laptop with a wireless (belkin 54g) card
installed. I want to connect this to our network with a
NT Domain server. The problem I appear to have is that
the wireless network does not initialise until a user has
logged in. However, the user is unable to log in because
no domain server is available. It's a chicken and egg
situation - I cannot do one without the other. Belkin
have suggested logging in then out, then in again. But
this is not possible because the laptop is locked down so
that only authenticated users can log in. Besides, I
cannot believe that the networking shouldn't start up
before a user logs in???? Is there a registry fix I can
do or anything I can change to fix this?

"Harv" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<0a7401c33fc5$7c03b1f0$(E-Mail Removed)>...
> I have a laptop with a wireless (belkin 54g) card
> installed. I want to connect this to our network with a
> NT Domain server. The problem I appear to have is that
> the wireless network does not initialise until a user has
> logged in. However, the user is unable to log in because
> no domain server is available. It's a chicken and egg
> situation - I cannot do one without the other. Belkin
> have suggested logging in then out, then in again. But
> this is not possible because the laptop is locked down so
> that only authenticated users can log in. Besides, I
> cannot believe that the networking shouldn't start up
> before a user logs in???? Is there a registry fix I can
> do or anything I can change to fix this?

I ran into that exact problem... however it was very difficult to get
them to admit to anything other than that it was my problem... the
problem is that the driver itself does not read any configuration data
from anywhere when they are loaded... and therefore it cannot be
configured until after the computer has initialized and their crappy
little "Belkin Wireless Utility" can tell the card what to do. So...
rather than make the card useful or able to function on a domain, they
choose the more secure method to not authenticate/connect to anything
until the utility says so... they have said that this is a problem,
which they have no plans (at the moment) to fix. However, if they do
fix... they will post it on their website.

I do believe this is ONLY relating to the Belkin piece of sh17
wireless card.. and am now going out to return every card I bought &
buy netgear cards. I'll try & keep you posted as to how well the
netgear (or whatever I buy) cards work.