Please help: howto add SP2 wireless access points?

[JPamplin]

Folks,

OK, I'm tearing my hair out on this one. How can I add a preferred wireless access point (with or without WEP keys, etc.) to my setup during install? Is it a registry key, or a file that I can copy in later (like rasphone.pbk is for adding dial-up or VPN connections)?

Anyone get this to work? I've got to reimage alot of laptops and adding the preferred access points in SP2 is just too time-consuming.

Oh, also, has anyone been able to change the Java Plug-In settings (via registry or whatever) to auto-enable using Sun's Java for IE and disabling auto-update checking?

I certainly appreciate it,

JP

[Astalavista]

I am also interested to know how to preset to infrastructure all my wiFi default

[teleri]

Have you tried the netsh dump functions in this thread?

netsh -c interface dump > c:\location.txt

netsh -f c:\location.txt

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...&hl=runonce

not sure if it would work on the wep/wma keys but I would think there should be some function to do it from netsh

[JPamplin]

Unfortunately, netsh cannot do this. But thanks for the suggestion.

Anyone else do this, say, in WINNT.SIF, registry, or otherwise? Maybe in GPEDIT?

Bueller? ;-)

JP

[a06lp]

anyone ever come up with a solution?

to be able to automatically have windows connect to a certain wireless network (Including WEP key?)

[durex]

Anyone figure out how to do this yet? I need to be able to join a wireless network during the unattended setup....

[ixion]

group policy can do it, if you can come up with a way of applying a group policy outside of an active directory domain?

[JPamplin]

Hmm. Can you be more specific, ixion? Where in GPEdit would you set that?

If I can do that, then do a registry compare, this might be as easy as a .reg file. We'll see.

Hopefully ixion is checking this thread.

JP

[JPamplin]

bump...

[JPamplin]

Bump again - I'm sorry but hopefully someone has run across this issue. If I don't get a response, I'll assume nobody knows how to do it. I'll update the thread if there's anything else I find out.

JP

[an R key]

OK I had the same problem and I have now got two sollutions for you.

For a computer that is not on a domain use the Windows Zero Config tool that can be found in the network config area of xp by double clicking on a wireless network connection. Once there use the option for Set up a wireless network for a home or small office. This brings up a wizzard that creates an auto install for u on a flash stick/drive. Once it's done this for u just copy all the files to the rollout and run it as needed. I don't think there are any switches for this tool so u will most likley have to go to each pc and click next and add or whatever. It's better than not using it. (DOES NOT WORK ON DOMAIN COMPUTERS)

For a domain computer use this link to explain how to to it... http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechn...64ef44f6b5.mspx

As far as I can tell you have to log in once for it to take effect and then u are done B)

I hope this helps you. If it does not just bump again.

an R key

[mockranger]

I've been digging arround in this for a couple of months. As yet I've not found a way to apply a preferred WiFi network with keys during install. The option I'm starting to look into now is for a API (C++ or VBS) way to get at that config. I've found some vague references to some WPA APIs

The only option I've found that gets remotely close is the Wireless Network Policies in the Secruity portion of the Group policy. These assume an 802.11 implementation though so you can't specify a shared key; It's expecting a PEAP or EAP/TLS implementation that will dynamically assign a random key. It does let you set a preferred network though, just not the key. It's great if you have 802.11 setup and definitely the better way to go in corporate environs but not worth the trouble for small or home environs.