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On Sun, 19 May 2013 19:15:30 -0400
"george cox" <gc...@mail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 19 May 2013 16:43:31 george cox wrote: > This could still
> be a network config issue. An easy way around might be to > connect
> (wired) both, the print server and the new laptop, to your router >
> (assuming that the router also acts as the dhcp server, and that both
> > clients are configured to get their ip address through dhcp). In
> > the > router's log you can then see the connected devices and their
> > respective IP > addresses. Can you connect from laptop to print
> > server now? Klaus I don't > think that can work. The print-server
> > doesn't have the ability to connect > it to the router through a
> > wired port, it just has the wireless. The > ethernet ports are only
> > used to bridge other non-wireless equipment through > the
> > printer-server to whatever wireless network the printer-server is >
> > configured to use. The rub is the only way to configure what
> > wireless > network the print-server uses is to put a computer on
> > one of those ethernet > ports, hold the reset button on the print-
> > server resetting it to factory > defaults, then configure the
> > wireless via a web-page generated by the > print-server. What seems
> > weird to me, is using ifconfig command to set an > IP worked on the
> > squeeze laptop, but didn't on the wheezy laptop. Both > systems
> > seem to take the ip and the output of running ifconfig -a looked >
> > the same on both. It was just that on one box I could connect to
> > the > print-servers webpage and the other I couldn't. On both I
> > took care to > disconnect from all other networks, so I wasn't a
> > routing issue. I am interested in your problem and might even be
> > able to help, but I cannot cope with this. You have not quoted what
> > you are replying to, and there is no air here at all. I could, of
> > course, reformat it, but I would still not have the quotation. You
> > will of course get help from those who are not bothered by such
> > things. But you might get more answers if you made yourself more
> > accessible. Lisi I don't know why it wasn't quoted, I'm just
> > hitting re ply in the email providers web interface. Not sure what
> > you mean by no air. I'll see what this email looks like when I send
> > this one, maybe it was just a fluke.
auto eth0 means your system will bring up the interface eth0
automatically while booting or after an invocation to bring the
interface up with ifup -a (from "man interfaces").
I am not so sure on Wheezy as I am still on Squeeze(actually it might
be the same), but if your /etc/network/interfaces is set up with
"# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp"
your interface eth0 will work only under dhcp,
which can be the issue if you need to connect to your printer with a
static address.
You could try to edit the /etc/network/interfaces file and set up
a static address there:
"# The primary network interface
#allow-hotplug eth0
#iface eth0 inet dhcp
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.2
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1"
With "address" being the address of your laptop to connect hardwired to
your printer,and then this network's mask. The gateway address might be
your printer's hardwired address.
The "#" on the 2 first lines are to disable the original dhcp settings
for eth0. When you have finished with your printer settings, you erase
them and append them before the 5 lines for the static settings.
Simply put, you do the opposite.
Then save, and bring the interface down and up with, for instance,
"ifdown eth0"
then
"ifup eth0".
Check everything went as planned with ifconfig, then try to ping your
printer:"ping print.er.add.ress"
Sometimes, you need to wait for 15-30 seconds for the ping to work
(I've just tried on my pc and that's what happened).
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