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Name: Sammisgram Date: March 2, 2009 at 05:18:53 Pacific OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional CPU/Ram: 1.596 GHz / 1014 MB Product: Dell / Mm061 Subcategory: Wireless
Comment:
I'm going nuts trying to set up a wireless printer. We have a Dell PC, a Dell laptop, Belkin router and a Brother Wireless Printer. The PC is wired to the router and printer. The laptop is wifi to the router, but I can't get it to use the wireless printer. Help. Thanks Toni
Name: guapo Date: March 2, 2009 at 07:50:53 Pacific
Reply:
First you said that the PC is wired to the router and the printer. Then you wanted to know how to use it as a wireless printer. It has to be one or the other. You have to use it as a shared printer, not a network printer if it's connected to the PC by a USB cable because it's on a USB port not a TCP port.
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Response Number 2
Name: Sammisgram Date: March 2, 2009 at 09:10:41 Pacific
Reply:
thank you...yes I mean a network printer since the desktop does not have wifi card. So, how do I do this?
thanks again
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Response Number 3
Name: andynet Date: March 2, 2009 at 12:00:16 Pacific
Reply:
I assume the router has a 4 port switch integrated if so you should connect the priter to one of the switch ports on the router, the wireless laptop will get assigned an ip by the router you will have to manually give both the printer a dekstop an ip and subnet mask,
For example if the routers built in IP was 192.168.0.1 then it would look like this,
Name: wanderer Date: March 2, 2009 at 12:30:49 Pacific
Reply:
You would only need to give the network printer a static ip address. If it supports dhcp and a host name then you would not need to do a static assignment. You would connect to the printer via host name.
How to get it setup and then how to configure the pc/laptop to connect to it would be covered in the manual that came with the printer.
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