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Network printer made wireless?
From: "Ed Pawlowski"
On Sun, 06 Jul 2014 22:53:51 +0100, Stuart wrote: In article , Ed Pawlowski wrote: If I go to the printer properties, it shows I'm using a USB virtual printer port. It also has a selection of TCP/IP ports listed. What happens if I select one of those? Try it but it would seem to me that a TCP?IP port is more likely to be a network port than anything reporting itself as USB. After all your computers will will be trying to communicate using TCPIP Right. I should have pointed out, right now I have the printer connected directly to the main desktop computer, thus the USB connection. We are goind to change that to an IP address in the 192.168.0.x address space AFTER you set the statically set the IP address such as in my example of 192.168.0.5 -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |
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Network printer made wireless?
Just a guess, not very likely, but could the cable between printer and
Uverse be a cross-over cable while you need a plain old Ethernet cable 1-1 2-2 3-3 6-6 On 7/5/2014 1:19 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote: I have an HP Laserjet1505n It is a network printer and has worked fine with the Ethernet plugged into the router. We can all print to it from the assorted computers in the house. ATT finally got me to switch to U-Verse for phone and internet. Big mistake it seems. They gave me a new router to use. It has four ports so like before, I plugged in the two desktops and the printer. The printer is not recognized. When I print a test sheet, it gives 0.0.0.0 as the IP address. Window 7 printer install cannot find it. I have spent hours on the phone with ATT support but got nowhere. I'm thinking the simple solution may be to buy a wireless print serve and let it connect wirelessly instead of with Ethernet. It does not have built in wireless capability. I'm thinking of this or one like it http://www.amazon.com/TRENDnet-Wirel...int+server+usb Suggestions or comments welcome. |
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Network printer made wireless?
On Sun, 06 Jul 2014 19:42:02 -0700, Bennett
wrote: Just a guess, not very likely, but could the cable between printer and Uverse be a cross-over cable while you need a plain old Ethernet cable 1-1 2-2 3-3 6-6 AFAIK, it is a plain cable. I even tried a different one in case it had a bad connector. |
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Network printer made wireless?
In article ,
David H. Lipman wrote: From: "Ed Pawlowski" New is a Motorola NVG510 Old is Netgear DGN2000 On occasion, one of the computers would not print unless the printer was re-installed. Could that be because the dynamic TCP/IP changed? Thanks for your help and explanation. Ed The Netgear DGN2000 uses 192.168.0.x and the new uses 192.168.1.x. Thus different sub-nets. Therefore the printer needs to be configured for an address on 192.168.0.x. For example statically set to; 192.168.0.5. Once that is done, create or modify a TCP/IP Printer Port, on each computer, that points to the IP address (such as 192.168.0.5 in my example) and the computers will be able to print to it. If you give the printer a static address inside the address range that the router distributes via DHCP, there's going to be a problem as soon as the router gives out that address to some device. Two solutions come to mind: 1. The router might only pick addresses in the range x.y.z.foo to x.y.z.bar to give out, or you can make it do so. In this case, give the printer any address from x.y.z.bar+1 to x.y.z.254. 2. The router might give out any address in the whole x.y.z.* subnet (and you can't change that) or you just might prefer setting your printer's address on the router. In this case, tell the printer to use DHCP, and note its MAC address (6 pairs of hex digits, usually separated by colons). Tell the router that the printer's MAC address is to be assigned to one particular chosen address. Most routers support static assignment in this manner. -- -eben P ebmanda.redirectme.net:81 LIBRA: A big promotion is just around the corner for someone much more talented than you. Laughter is the very best medicine, remember that when your appendix bursts next week. -- Weird Al |
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Network printer made wireless?
From: "Hactar"
In article , David H. Lipman wrote: From: "Ed Pawlowski" New is a Motorola NVG510 Old is Netgear DGN2000 On occasion, one of the computers would not print unless the printer was re-installed. Could that be because the dynamic TCP/IP changed? Thanks for your help and explanation. Ed The Netgear DGN2000 uses 192.168.0.x and the new uses 192.168.1.x. Thus different sub-nets. Therefore the printer needs to be configured for an address on 192.168.0.x. For example statically set to; 192.168.0.5. Once that is done, create or modify a TCP/IP Printer Port, on each computer, that points to the IP address (such as 192.168.0.5 in my example) and the computers will be able to print to it. If you give the printer a static address inside the address range that the router distributes via DHCP, there's going to be a problem as soon as the router gives out that address to some device. Two solutions come to mind: 1. The router might only pick addresses in the range x.y.z.foo to x.y.z.bar to give out, or you can make it do so. In this case, give the printer any address from x.y.z.bar+1 to x.y.z.254. 2. The router might give out any address in the whole x.y.z.* subnet (and you can't change that) or you just might prefer setting your printer's address on the router. In this case, tell the printer to use DHCP, and note its MAC address (6 pairs of hex digits, usually separated by colons). Tell the router that the printer's MAC address is to be assigned to one particular chosen address. Most routers support static assignment in this manner. Not true. DHCP and its parent BootP will not assign an address if it sees that address is already in use. Using a static IP on an appliance is always preferred. There will not be a problem and if you have managed as many LANs as I have, you would know that. Additionally one also will create a pattern such x.y.z.2 ~ x.y.z.49 will be static assignments and all addresses from x.y.z.50 ~ x.y.z.254 are dynamically assigned. One may also come up with a range for BootP/TFTP. For example Print Server with the MAC AA:BB:CCD:11:22 will be assigned IP address x.y.z.99 and would thent load a specific control script providing SNMP, access control lists, and other configuration information. -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |
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Network printer made wireless?
In article ,
David H. Lipman wrote: From: "Hactar" In article , David H. Lipman wrote: From: "Ed Pawlowski" New is a Motorola NVG510 Old is Netgear DGN2000 On occasion, one of the computers would not print unless the printer was re-installed. Could that be because the dynamic TCP/IP changed? Thanks for your help and explanation. Ed The Netgear DGN2000 uses 192.168.0.x and the new uses 192.168.1.x. Thus different sub-nets. Therefore the printer needs to be configured for an address on 192.168.0.x. For example statically set to; 192.168.0.5. Once that is done, create or modify a TCP/IP Printer Port, on each computer, that points to the IP address (such as 192.168.0.5 in my example) and the computers will be able to print to it. If you give the printer a static address inside the address range that the router distributes via DHCP, there's going to be a problem as soon as the router gives out that address to some device. Two solutions come to mind: 1. The router might only pick addresses in the range x.y.z.foo to x.y.z.bar to give out, or you can make it do so. In this case, give the printer any address from x.y.z.bar+1 to x.y.z.254. 2. The router might give out any address in the whole x.y.z.* subnet (and you can't change that) or you just might prefer setting your printer's address on the router. In this case, tell the printer to use DHCP, and note its MAC address (6 pairs of hex digits, usually separated by colons). Tell the router that the printer's MAC address is to be assigned to one particular chosen address. Most routers support static assignment in this manner. Not true. DHCP and its parent BootP will not assign an address if it sees that address is already in use. Maybe. If the device does pick an address, IME it usually isn't one in your subnet unless you've told it a fallback somewhere. Using a static IP on an appliance is always preferred. There will not be a problem and if you have managed as many LANs as I have, you would know that. Additionally one also will create a pattern such x.y.z.2 ~ x.y.z.49 will be static assignments and all addresses from x.y.z.50 ~ x.y.z.254 are dynamically assigned. Yes, that was case 1. If you'd read as much as I wrote, you'd kwow that. One may also come up with a range for BootP/TFTP. For example Print Server with the MAC AA:BB:CCD:11:22 will be assigned IP address x.y.z.99 and would thent load a specific control script providing SNMP, access control lists, and other configuration information. Most home setups don't involve SNMP or config scripts. -- -eben P ebmanda.redirectme.net:81 LIBRA: A big promotion is just around the corner for someone much more talented than you. Laughter is the very best medicine, remember that when your appendix bursts next week. -- Weird Al |
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Network printer made wireless?
In article ,
David H. Lipman wrote: Tell the router that the printer's MAC address is to be assigned to one particular chosen address. Most routers support static assignment in this manner Yup, that's the way to do it. It's what I had to do here. One of my PC's was forever loosing my Dell 2330 till I did that. -- Tools With A Mission sending tools across the world http://www.twam.co.uk/ |
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Network printer made wireless?
From: "Hactar"
In article , David H. Lipman wrote: From: "Hactar" In article , David H. Lipman wrote: From: "Ed Pawlowski" New is a Motorola NVG510 Old is Netgear DGN2000 On occasion, one of the computers would not print unless the printer was re-installed. Could that be because the dynamic TCP/IP changed? Thanks for your help and explanation. Ed The Netgear DGN2000 uses 192.168.0.x and the new uses 192.168.1.x. Thus different sub-nets. Therefore the printer needs to be configured for an address on 192.168.0.x. For example statically set to; 192.168.0.5. Once that is done, create or modify a TCP/IP Printer Port, on each computer, that points to the IP address (such as 192.168.0.5 in my example) and the computers will be able to print to it. If you give the printer a static address inside the address range that the router distributes via DHCP, there's going to be a problem as soon as the router gives out that address to some device. Two solutions come to mind: 1. The router might only pick addresses in the range x.y.z.foo to x.y.z.bar to give out, or you can make it do so. In this case, give the printer any address from x.y.z.bar+1 to x.y.z.254. 2. The router might give out any address in the whole x.y.z.* subnet (and you can't change that) or you just might prefer setting your printer's address on the router. In this case, tell the printer to use DHCP, and note its MAC address (6 pairs of hex digits, usually separated by colons). Tell the router that the printer's MAC address is to be assigned to one particular chosen address. Most routers support static assignment in this manner. Not true. DHCP and its parent BootP will not assign an address if it sees that address is already in use. Maybe. If the device does pick an address, IME it usually isn't one in your subnet unless you've told it a fallback somewhere. Using a static IP on an appliance is always preferred. There will not be a problem and if you have managed as many LANs as I have, you would know that. Additionally one also will create a pattern such x.y.z.2 ~ x.y.z.49 will be static assignments and all addresses from x.y.z.50 ~ x.y.z.254 are dynamically assigned. Yes, that was case 1. If you'd read as much as I wrote, you'd kwow that. One may also come up with a range for BootP/TFTP. For example Print Server with the MAC AA:BB:CCD:11:22 will be assigned IP address x.y.z.99 and would thent load a specific control script providing SNMP, access control lists, and other configuration information. Most home setups don't involve SNMP or config scripts. But still use the TCP/IP protocol and it is 'comp.periphs.printers' not 'comp.home-periphs.printers'. -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |
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Network printer made wireless?
In article ,
Stuart wrote: In article , David H. Lipman wrote: Tell the router that the printer's MAC address is to be assigned to one particular chosen address. Most routers support static assignment in this manner Yup, that's the way to do it. It's what I had to do here. One of my PC's was forever loosing my Dell 2330 till I did that. I'm sure David Lipman is a nice guy, but I don't speak for him. -- -eben P ebmanda.redirectme.net:81 LIBRA: A big promotion is just around the corner for someone much more talented than you. Laughter is the very best medicine, remember that when your appendix bursts next week. -- Weird Al |
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Network printer made wireless?
From: "Ed Pawlowski"
Much time has transpired so I'll presume all is OK. -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |
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