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Intel Proset - Trouble establishing a wireless connection at boot/pre-logon - need to VNC pre-logon

I've run into some problems trying to configure a pre-logon wireless environment on some mobile systems.  Intel Proset and the SSO extensions appear to be properly installed, and I've created an admin. profile with both the persistent and pre-login options checked.  

The PC's authenticate wirelessly via LEAP with a predetermined username/password.  Ideally, systems would boot and establish their wireless connections immediately, pre-logon, allowing a tech to VNC to the machine as soon as it was powered on (@ the ctrl alt del).  

Initially, i removed and reinstalled the newest proset, created the admin profile with persistent and pre logon options, applied it to the current machine, and rebooted.  On a few of the tests, the setup did seem to work.  I was able to VNC/ping as soon as the machine hit the "ctrl alt del" login.  But as i began to work through other machines, i was not successfully achieving the pre login ping/VNC.  Even the machines that worked initially couldn't be counted on to test correctly again.  The implemtation seems spotty at best.

If you enter credentials of an account on the domain that hasn't previously logged it, it launches the intel pre-logon authentication window without issue, acquires the wireless, and logins in, but i would like to consistently establish the persistent, pre logon connection without user intervention.  

Has anyone else experienced this spotty/inconsistent behavior with their Intel Proset pre-logon setup?  Any solutions? Any advice would be appreciated.  

Solution: Intel Proset - Trouble establishing a wireless connection at boot/pre-logon - need to VNC pre-logon

Try only Persistent and disable Pre-Logon

Intel is sort of goofy with their naming of features.  Pre-Logon attempts connection during the logon process NOT before.  This feature only works with windows authentication and login windows (gina).  If you happen to be one of the few (like me) that use alternate login windows (ginas) like Novell then the pre-logon feature will not work.

Persistent connects to a wireless connection at boot and logoff (also during user session if no Pre-Logon is set).

If you don't require specific user authentication aka single username/password set in the profile, then you don't require the pre-logon feature, so try without it.

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