Re: Wireless network cards that load drivers before logon on Windows 2000


"Rob Nicholson" <rob.nicholson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I've recently tried to build a Windows 2000 Server box and hit the (not
> uncommon) problem whereby the wireless configuration tool only runs after
> a user logons. It's a D-Link AirBus G510. This means that if the server is
> rebooted, it doesn't come on the network until you logon. I have a couple
> of workarounds:
>
> a) use the autologon facility to always login a user
> b) use the Windows 2000 schedule facility to load the airbus.exe
> configuration on load
>
> Both methods work but it got me thinking. We're considering going wireless
> in our new office and we'll need to buy some wireless PCI NIC. Does anyone
> know which makes/models are domain logon friendly? By this I mean the NIC
> driver is configured during boot before the logon prompt. Without this, a
> new user cannot logon to a server as the domain controller cannot be
> found.
>
> Cheers, Rob.
>
> PS. I believe Windows XP is better at this with it's inbuilt wireless
> configuration mechanism.
>

I think any NIC which conforms to the PXE standard, which to be fair is most
these days, is what you're looking for. Nearly all the ones on the networks
I look after are 3Com but we also use some DLink ones too, the Broadcom ones
we have are a little fiddly but I think that's more to do with a driver
issue and the tosser who did the customised server build.


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