dizzylizard58
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Hey guys i have a 4000T that i would like to put onto my home network. It has a jet direct card on it and i have a plain old linksys router Can i do it?
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hi,
probably you can use the 2nd (3rd) port of the router
(I believe the first is linked to your PC), as a hub /switch
Your router probably acts also a DHCP: when your PC perform
a DSL connection, the router takes an address as 192.168.1.1
and gives to your PC an addrees 192.168.1.2.
Verify this isseuing a ipconfig or ipconfig/all when (and not) connected via DSL. If al is tru, and I have understood
something of your problem, set the printer with a ip adderss
like 192.168.1.3 (using local printer panel).
Before pass the next step, ensure that ping 192.168.1.3
gives answer (verify it is the printer, detaching the printer cable while doing a ping 192.168.1.3 -t .
This was the hard. The easy, is to
1) get printer driver over the web,
2) launch the Add printer wizard,
2.1) say it is a local printer (not a network printer !)
2.2) Add a port standard tcpip, and put as ip address that of the printer.
Before of all try this.
This scenario may have a bug: it goes just when DSL is connected. I have 2 workarounds to avoid this, but I will explain in the next appointment.
ciao
vittorio
probably you can use the 2nd (3rd) port of the router
(I believe the first is linked to your PC), as a hub /switch
Your router probably acts also a DHCP: when your PC perform
a DSL connection, the router takes an address as 192.168.1.1
and gives to your PC an addrees 192.168.1.2.
Verify this isseuing a ipconfig or ipconfig/all when (and not) connected via DSL. If al is tru, and I have understood
something of your problem, set the printer with a ip adderss
like 192.168.1.3 (using local printer panel).
Before pass the next step, ensure that ping 192.168.1.3
gives answer (verify it is the printer, detaching the printer cable while doing a ping 192.168.1.3 -t .
This was the hard. The easy, is to
1) get printer driver over the web,
2) launch the Add printer wizard,
2.1) say it is a local printer (not a network printer !)
2.2) Add a port standard tcpip, and put as ip address that of the printer.
Before of all try this.
This scenario may have a bug: it goes just when DSL is connected. I have 2 workarounds to avoid this, but I will explain in the next appointment.
ciao
vittorio
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dizzylizard58
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Thanks for the info i REALLY appreciate it!!
I have a 19 Mbps T3, & 3 Win XP pro computers connected to the router
BTW its a linksys WRT54G
I have a 19 Mbps T3, & 3 Win XP pro computers connected to the router
BTW its a linksys WRT54G
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dizzylizard58
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All i did was find the IP address of the jet direct card, Pinged it to make sure the print server was responding and then added local printer with the ip address of printer and since XP comes with the driver pre installed i didn't have to download and drivers.
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