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HP 6980 - won't properly connect "securely" via wireless - only "unsecurely"
Attempted to set up a HP6980 for a neighbour, expecting it to be easy -
connected to a Toshiba laptop via a Draytek 2800G wireless router But the wireless printing only seems to work when the printer has *no* encryption set. If the printer has no encryption set, it prints fine. Setting up using the "manual" option - via Ethernet cable connecting router to printer - all seems fine... until the Ethernet cable is removed. At that point, the printer seems unable to find the router wirelessly - the printer's network indicator light blinks ( indicating "no connection" ). It seems that the problem only occurs if the printer is being set to use encryption. The connection between laptop and router is WEP. If the printer is set to use WEP it can't find the router, but if the printer is set to use no encryption it works fine. ( Filtering by MAC address has been set in the router, and that seems to be fine. ) Any suggestions or comments at this point ? :| |
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HP 6980 - won't properly connect "securely" via wireless - only "unsecurely"
On Sep 13, 4:24 am, "
wrote: Attempted to set up a HP6980 for a neighbour, expecting it to be easy - connected to a Toshiba laptop via a Draytek 2800G wireless router But the wireless printing only seems to work when the printer has *no* encryption set. If the printer has no encryption set, it prints fine. Setting up using the "manual" option - via Ethernet cable connecting router to printer - all seems fine... until the Ethernet cable is removed. At that point, the printer seems unable to find the router wirelessly - the printer's network indicator light blinks ( indicating "no connection" ). It seems that the problem only occurs if the printer is being set to use encryption. The connection between laptop and router is WEP. If the printer is set to use WEP it can't find the router, but if the printer is set to use no encryption it works fine. ( Filtering by MAC address has been set in the router, and that seems to be fine. ) Any suggestions or comments at this point ? :| I've not actually done this, but have whiled away an hour or so at work perusing the PDF manual for an HP C6180 wifi printer I ordered yesterday that hasn't arrived yet. I don't think that the HPs will "failover" from wired to wireless network printing - i.e. by unplugging the ethernet - you have to toggle one or the other. The manual suggests this needs to be done at the point of installing the driver, and may even need a reinstall of the printer driver to change - HP say it definitely does when switching between USB and network, and suggest that this also applies to switching between wired ethernet and wireless - during the install you have to tell the driver where on the network the printer is, and I'm not sure it'll just accept a static IP address, which would be best all round. It also tells you to unplug the ethernet cable before attempting a wifi connection. Is your printer being given an IP address by the router? Is it pingable and on the network? If you're entering your WEP key in ASCII, try the hex equivalent. I only use hex keys on WEP now due to a variety of similar problems in the past...Your router should translate and give you the hex value for the key. Can the printer find the SSID of your network? On the C6180 there's a wifi networking diagnostic via the front panel. There's also a corporate driver for a lot of these printers that have less ancilliary tat and might prove more effective for network setup - I can't imagine the network broadcast method of setup that the standard CD uses would scale up for big networks so it might offer more control of the networking side of things... Ric |
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