Wireless printer - problem setting up!!

alirob12

oops - my last msg must have dissapeared somewhere - I work as a pm in IT and use Cisco encrypted email still no luck here tho

alirob12

I have done it already - good stuff

omen666

Yeah spent too much time reporting into PM's and battling with them as most seem to have a narrow IT skillset and are unable to scope in the rest.

For example, you ask them to order something and they say they know what that entails and you find out they dont order everything else associated with it. Most have a minimal skillset, so for example, some have say expert SAN knowledge but nothing in terms of what is needed if we were to run a citrix farm on there using VMWare and what we would need in terms of spec and licensing etc etc

alirob12

I think i am getting somewhere... My network is WEP encrypted. I have just turned the encryption off and it worked perfectly well. so the problem is with the printer failing to get thru the security even though i put all the details in when installing the printer... weird

alirob12

Any idea anyone? Obviously I cant turn my security off, so not sure what to do??
Thanks

devon_scouse

Dont know if this helps I am using Cannon wireless printer.

One thing I found was that if I had to use WEP KEY 1 as selecting other numbers disabled the connection between the machine and AirPort. So had to configure everything to use WEP KEY 1 Laptop, computer, router, printer.

omen666

alir!!!2 wrote: »

I think i am getting somewhere... My network is WEP encrypted. I have just turned the encryption off and it worked perfectly well. so the problem is with the printer failing to get thru the security even though i put all the details in when installing the printer... weird

In that case and I was going to go along them lines is to change it to WPA2 and bet it works 100 % if not download this please

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=mp-74066-3&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&product=3944758&os=4062&lang=en

alirob12

Oman - you are ace!!! changed it to WPA and works perfectly well!!!! Such a simple thing but has taken me so many hours!! thanks very much!! much appreciated!!!

omen666

alir!!!2 wrote: »

Oman - you are ace!!! changed it to WPA and works perfectly well!!!! Such a simple thing but has taken me so many hours!! thanks very much!! much appreciated!!!

Was going to mention it the other night but thought it better t start from the beginning. Once you said it was fine without WEP then I knew it would

Glad its working

alirob12

Thanks very much!!