Wireless Printing Problems

[marvhuffaker]

I'm in a situation where I am cleaning up after a different company that had never setup a Novell server before..

- Linksys WPS11 v3 Wireless Print Servers attached to Brother HL-1440 Printers via Parallel cable. I know it's low end gear but that's what they already had when I walked in.

I tried to set these up with NDPS but i can't make it work. The printers show as Idle in the Manager, but then when you send a job to them it eventually errors out and nothign prints. The status either stays at "printing" or some error..

The best info I could find was that I needed to set the LPR name to L1, which I did with no luck.

I eventually gave up on NDPS and tried to move the printers back to local Direct IP printing and I can't make that work either. I get similar stuff where the job shows printing and never comes out, it eventually errors out.

Has anyone dealt with this stuff before? The logistics of the building doesn't allow for cabled network connections, so that's not really an option.

Thanks.




Marvin Huffaker MCNE, CNE
Marvin Huffaker Consulting

http://www.redjuju.com

 

[fredericofonseca]

Not really an answer.

Some linksys devices have lots of problems, and sometimes don't work well at all.

I would try to access it using a Windows PC with another brand (Netgear or 3Comm or maybe DLink) of Wireless device and see if it works from there (using IP also).

While on the PC look carefully at the signal your're getting from the LinkSys.


Also worth checking.

The WPS11 is a piece of junk. Send it back. I worked all day to get it setup with my other Linksys Wireless network and then discovered in the back of the manual that it will not support bidirectional printers unless you turn off the bidirectional feature.

Regards

Frederico Fonseca
SysSoft Integrated Ltd

http://www.syssoft-int.com

 

[LawnBoy]

Try setting the lpr name to 'print'. Has worked for me before...

 

[marvhuffaker]

I tried various stuff and nothing worked. So I put in a different brand that fully supports LPR and had it up and running in 10 minutes. works flawlessly.



Marvin Huffaker MCNE, CNE
Marvin Huffaker Consulting

http://www.redjuju.com

 

[LawnBoy]

What brand? Or just a different model of Linksys?

 

[marvhuffaker]

It's actually a HAWKING Brand. Not my preferred brand but was the only one that I could tell for sure would work with NetWare. Plus it said it supported IPX queues so it gave me a fallback in case LPR didn't work.



Marvin Huffaker MCNE, CNE
Marvin Huffaker Consulting

http://www.redjuju.com