Dell Wireless 1395 connect on startup

Ive got an m1530 with a dell wireless 1395 card, and want it to automatically connect to my home's wireless network before it loads windows (or before logon, at least before it loads my desktop; it always takes time for it to connect and then my firewall to recognize it and set the appropriate firewall so that my applications can use the internet)
i'm almost positive the intel wireless card can do this (i remember seeing a feature during the install of its utility on another laptop), is there a way to do it with the dell card or not?
thanks

 

It should take 2-3 seconds after login to connect to your router. Must be your firewall.

What OS?

 

windows XP, bitdefender firewall. i'd still rather it not spend time 'acquiring network address' etc, while its loading my desktop and everything else. i know the feature exists for the intel cards, so i would assume you could do something similar with dell cards?

yes, it does only take a few seconds, but i always try to logon to aim, it says 'the service cannot be reached', then i have to wait a few seconds (this is all after the network has been established) before i can logon just fine. i know this sounds like a firewall issue, ill work on getting that fixed as well.

 

ok, when i uninstalled my security center (switching to ESET; highly recommended) and while it was uninstalled, it still took longer to be able to access the internet. after everything else loads in the task tray, it will still show the wireless network still 'acquiring network address', so i have to wait for this to finish (5-10 seconds) before i can connect to the internet, which is very annoying because everything else has finished loading.

i think ill post this in the dell community forums and post back here if i get a response

 

I had a 1420 model with the 1390 card that had the same symptoms. It took upwards of 30 seconds to actually get online....kept saying the same thing "acquiring network address" until it finally connected.

Turned out the problem for me was the dell 1390 driver and after uninstalling and reinstalling with an updated driver posted by Dell, which was in beta at the time, all the slow network connection issues cleared up and I was down to 2-3 seconds.

Might want to check around and see if there's an updated driver somewhere for the 1395 card, because I dealt with that problem for months and months until a new driver was released that finally cleared up the problem.