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| Thread ID: 107299 | 2010-02-11 21:42:00 | Help! Belkin Wireless Print Server won't recognise! | Sam Bos (12456) | Press F1 |
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| 857362 | 2010-02-11 21:42:00 | Hey guys, just got a belkin wireless print server to be used with the brand spanking new $39 Multi-Function printer me and my flatmate just bought the other day - but I can't get it to work (with the wizard - wouldn't have a clue about the advanced setup). me and my mate both use laptops which wirelessly connect to our router (a Thompson one we got with out telecom connection). the router is in the kitchen (where the phone jack is) but the printer is in our lounge as thats the only space we have for one. Which Is why i bought this wireless usb print server. Installed the printer straight to my Computer (this is necessary before installing the print server), and the printer works fine. Then I loaded the install CD for the Print Server, and it tries to search for the IP address for the Print Server, but just can't seem to find it. Then it says 'connect it via ethernet cable' then it seems to find the address, and then it tells me to disconnect the cable and try the wireless again. But it just can't seem to find the wireless. Tried holding the reset switch on the server for 10seconds, tried unplugging the power cable and plugging it back in again, still nothing! I was up till after midnight last night but just couldn't get it to work!!! Any ideas anyone? cheers Sam |
Sam Bos (12456) | ||
| 857363 | 2010-02-11 21:44:00 | Maybe your brand new $39 printer doesn't have wireless capabilities :) | Zippity (58) | ||
| 857364 | 2010-02-11 21:47:00 | Did you connect it to a laptop, then install the drivers for it on a laptop then share it? | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 857365 | 2010-02-11 21:51:00 | Maybe your brand new $39 printer doesn't have wireless capabilities :) That's why I bought a wireless print server dude. I can't even get up to the connect printer stage, my computer has to connect to my wireless print server first which its not doing |
Sam Bos (12456) | ||
| 857366 | 2010-02-11 21:53:00 | Did you connect it to a laptop, then install the drivers for it on a laptop then share it? Connect what? the printer? or the print server? I installed the drivers for my Printer on my laptop, (made sure its not shared - because the instructions for the Print Server said so) |
Sam Bos (12456) | ||
| 857367 | 2010-02-11 22:03:00 | So what software did you get for the server, and what options are in it? Unless you wanted to print when one of the laptops are off, you dont really need the print server | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 857368 | 2010-02-11 22:27:00 | So what software did you get for the server, and what options are in it? Unless you wanted to print when one of the laptops are off, you dont really need the print server Just the software that came with it. Cant find the thing on the belkin website, but this is a review of it just so you can see what one I have: www.pcstats.com F1UP0001 is the model I think Online manual: cache-www.belkin.com The whole idea I got it was because A) both me and my flatmate move our laptops around a bit so we don't want to be connected with cables/wires, and B) our router is in the kitchen and our printer is in the lounge, so to wirelessly print we needed a wireless server rather than a wired one. That's all the info I know/can give sorry, I'm not very clued up about this |
Sam Bos (12456) | ||
| 857369 | 2010-02-11 22:35:00 | But DO you want to print to the laptop thats connected to the printer, if it's off?? If you dont, you dont need the server or the router.. Since both have wireless (dont they)? All you would have to do is share it, then add the printer to the other laptop, then it'll print I've done it it here before with this printer which isnt wireless. ALl, I did was add 2 wireless adapters to the other pc's / shared the printer. That was it. Both printed to the printer without a router or the server |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 857370 | 2010-02-12 00:42:00 | I know what you mean. When I lived at my parent's place, we had their desktop PC wired to the router, and wired to the printer. My mum and I both have laptops which are wireless capable, so I managed to set the laptops up so that we could print wirelessly to the printer (would still work even if the Desktop PC was off). [it did take me ages to get it working but I managed it. The only difference between that setup and what I'm trying to achieve now, is instead of using a Desktop PC wired to the router to the Printer, the Print Server is connected to the printer (and Supposed to be wirelessly connected to our router). I know it will work if say my laptop is connected to the printer - then my mates laptop can print wirelessly (connection goes thru my laptop). But the whole idea of getting a Wireless Server was so that Neither of us have to have our laptops Wired to the printer, do you get what I mean? |
Sam Bos (12456) | ||
| 857371 | 2010-02-12 01:07:00 | But the whole idea of getting a Wireless Server was so that Neither of us have to have our laptops Wired to the printer, do you get what I mean? What? The print server is connected to a USB port on the printer? Dont think thats what the port on a printer is for. Thats the point of having a print server. So you can print to whatever, whether its on or off Dont think thats going to happen. It would have to be physically connected to one of the laptops. if the printer was wireless, that would be a different story. How exactly would the print server communicate with the printer, if the printer isnt connected to anything? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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