WPC54GS and admin account requirement

[garrstim]

After installing Linksys WRT54GL router and Linksys WPC54GS notebook adapter, I have made the disappointing discovery that the lappy adapter WILL NOT work in WIN2K (and probably WinXP) user accounts that do not have Admin privileges. Has anyone found a workaround for this ridiculous pitfall. (WOW, oh great, I'm forced to surf in the wild with an admin account.) Apparently the adapter drivers will not load into anything but Admin accounts. All works fine in any Admin account, but "Adapter is inactive " in any account with lesser privileges.

Maybe this has been addressed somewhere already in the forum, but I couldn't find such.

All firmware is latest.

Is there a registry entry that can be changed or perhaps if the install is done with Wireless Zero Configuration rather than Linksys setup...???

Thanks now for any future help.

[johnwill]

It may just need to have the access rights to certain registry value or file changed. To find out you'll need to run FILEMON and REGMON from SysInternals (using RunAs since they need Admin rights), then run the app and see if you get any Access Denied entry. It's down and dirty and may take awhile, but it may turn up the entry you need to change the permissions on in the Registry (or filesystem).

[johnhook]

garrstim,

Did you install the card while logged in as "Administrator"? If so, this SHOULD work. Check out the technotes on installing this card at:

http://linksys.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/...=5603644608B02.

It's possible that you installed it as another user with Admin rights, but that user has NTFS permission restrictions preventing the drive from being shared by other users. I would press CTRL-ALT-DEL, type Administrator and login with the Administrator account/password when installing this device.

- John

[johnwill]

Good catch John, I'll remember that.