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McGraw · 05-05-2005, 09:38

I'm going round to my Dad's tonight to set him up wirelessly.

He has bought a Belkin 125 adsl modem/router, pcmcia and pci card combo which, if anyone is interested was ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£100 from savastore.com.

I know that setting up the wireless connection to his desktop will be easy as I obviously gave him administration rights when I set his PC up.

The problem will be with his laptop. Ideally I would like to set this up for him so we can test out the ideal location for the router but his account is restricted to a domain user.

As an educated guess, bearing in mind no-one apart from his IT department knows his exact access rights, do you think I will be able to configure his laptop for him or will his work have to do it?

I.e. do you need admin rights to set up a wireless network on Win2k SP4 with a PCMCIA card?

Cheers.

05-05-2005, 09:38	#1
McGraw Inactive Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Manchester Posts: 993	Setting up wireless card on restricted policy laptop I'm going round to my Dad's tonight to set him up wirelessly. He has bought a Belkin 125 adsl modem/router, pcmcia and pci card combo which, if anyone is interested was ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£100 from savastore.com. I know that setting up the wireless connection to his desktop will be easy as I obviously gave him administration rights when I set his PC up. The problem will be with his laptop. Ideally I would like to set this up for him so we can test out the ideal location for the router but his account is restricted to a domain user. As an educated guess, bearing in mind no-one apart from his IT department knows his exact access rights, do you think I will be able to configure his laptop for him or will his work have to do it? I.e. do you need admin rights to set up a wireless network on Win2k SP4 with a PCMCIA card? Cheers.