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Turn a parallel port printer into a wireless printer?

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  • r2015
    r2015 Posts: 1,136 Forumite
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    It gets an IP from the DHCP server (or set up a static one) and that IP you use when you set up your printer as network printer.
    I switched on a spare computer with Windows XP (I've got 5 computers up my attic) and set it off to find the printserver, which it did, I went into the printserver page (192.168.0.9) which was recognized and clicked print test page.

    It said it printed the test page, however nothing came out the printer.

    The printserver is now back in it's box ready to be posted and anyone can have it for the price of the postage.

    Why anyone would be daft enough to want it, I don't know?

    I'm getting too old for all this, I'm even thinking of going back to Windows 8.1 as half my games don't run right in Windows 10, considering most of them were bought when I had a Windows 98 computer.

    That's one advantage of getting old, you can play the same missing object games over and over as you forget the solution after a while.
    over 73 but not over the hill.
  • almillar
    almillar Posts: 8,621 Forumite
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    Edit: OMG, I just looked at Netgear's support pages and they're talking about Windows 98 in the manual
    OK, I think I might be right in saying that we could be talking about *16 Bit* drivers, which means you're way out of luck!
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