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With a wireless router that you probably have for you laptop. Printer should be connected directly to the router, and all PC's in you home can use it as a network printer, so everyone can print on it. Whether connection between printer and router is Wi-Fi or cable is of no importance.
The procedure of installation may be a little boggling for someone doing it the first time. As I remember you should start installing driver CD on you laptop, and it will tell you when to connect printer to it, and when the basic part of installation is over. This way you can use printer connected directly to you laptop via USB.
Next it will offer you to set wireless parameters. If your router is set to automatic (DHCP) it will ask you to register printer on your home network and you must enter your wireless network SSID and password somewhere in your printer. It should not be too hard. You just have to fallow the instructions.
If your friend comes over with a laptop and joins your wireless network, he still can't use your printer, because he's hasn't got drivers installed, so you'll have to do that part all over again, for every PC.
If you use a wireless USB print server like this . Keep in mind that you may not get all functions such as scanning to work but it will allow for printing for sure. If the scanning works consider it a bonus.
Turn your wireless router off.
Wait 13 seconds.
Turn your wireless router on.
Try again to make a wireless connection.
Find a friend with an iPod Touch or iPhone or laptop,
and see if they can make a wireless connection to your router.
If not, your router is the problem (maybe, it needs to be configured?).
Take your laptop to someplace (public library or Starbucks) that offers "free wireless". Can you connect your laptop to that network? If so, your laptop's hardware is OK.
Sometimes this problem occures when you install a later model wireless router.
Try installing the latest Wireless card driver on the XP computer and the LAN card drivers on the other computers except the MAC.
Windows 7 is not best suited yet for wireless connectivity, but broadcom wireless cards/dongles are about the only ones that work favourably with this Microsoft offering. Anything to do with non working hardware IS A DRIVER ISSUE AND IF IT IS NOT IN THE UPDATE SITE YOU WILL HAVE TO DOWNLOAD DRIVERS FROM THE VENDOR OF YOUR PARTICULAR HARDWARE. MOST HARDWARE THAT WORKS IN VISTA WILL WORK IN WINDOWS 7.
GO TO START>NETWORK CONNECTION CHECK WIRELESS IS THERE OR NOT if not there go to Start>Run type "services.msc" start windows zero configuration GO TO START>NETWORK CONNECTION right click WIRELESS properties select wireless tab put one tick mark in the use windows to configure....................... ok agin right click on wireless view wireless network search on wireless(leftside)
select connect
If this printer has Wi-Fi then yes you can connect to your router.
The printer must have an internal Wireless PServer it will have a Node Name this is what is needed to connect to the Router. If your router is set for Wireless and the SSID is working (ie no wirless isolation) then when you set up the printer driver it will ask you to connect to the router via an ethernet 100MB patch cable first to load the correct type of port for the printer drive, you only need do this once.
Then if the printer is set to boot in WLAN mode it should get an IP address via DHCP on your router.
Hope this helps, please rate my advice I will post more help if needed just add on to the end of this post.
have you setup the wireless connection in between the printer and the laptop... your laptop is working wirelessly with the internet but for making the printer to use it wirelessly the printer should be also a wireless printer.
and if the printer is a wireless printer then you have to setup the connection in between the printer & laptop to work wirelessly.
I assume you have a wireless network set up with a wireless router, since you said you have a wireless laptop. You need to share the printer on the desktop. You also need to set up both computers to be on the same network (for example, WORKGROUP or MSHOME, or a name of your choosing).Once shared and on the same network, you can go to the laptop and add a printer--just tell it that it is a network printer. A caution--to work without further hassle, both computers need to be running the same version of Windows. If not, you'll need the driver disk for the system on your laptop.
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