I've been given a Belkin F5D7231-4P router/print server. My USB printer (HP PSC2110) is in my bedroom due to lack of space downstairs, and I'm sick of carting my old laptop upstairs to print. I already had an old WAP upstairs (cabled to my router downstairs) to enable use of my laptop in the garden. So I configured the F5D as a WAP and as a print server for the HP, intending to print wirelessly from my Win7 Ultimate (64 bit) desktop downstairs. I can log on to the F5D wirelessly from my PC via my WLAN, and the print server function on the F5D supports the printer fine. But the print server install onto my PC gave error 1805 when trying to install the print server port. So I've installed the printer manually as a TCP/IP port pointing to the IP for the F5D. All seems fine apart from the fact that on my PC the printer shows as offline - I can send a test print - but of course it never comes out, just sits in the print queue. The job in the print queue shows nothing for the port. I found on this site a query about the same problem using a Belkin wireless print server F1UP0001 (solution quoted below) - but have double checked the settings on both the F5D and the printer install on my PC and they're identical to what's suggested for the F1UP0001 (correct IP for my router, RAW set, correct port number for the print server on the F5D etc) I've of course tried rebooting the F5D, the printer, my router, and my PC - to no avail. Any bright ideas please? I'm bemused. :confused:
"You can set up your printer without using the Belkin software in windows 7, install your printer as normal as if you had it plugged into your computer, go to the printer setting and select the ports tab, add a new port and select standard tcp/ip port and click 'new port'then click 'next', in the 'printer name or ip address' box type in the ip address of the print server, for example 192.169.1.8' then give the port a name, for example 'belkin port' and click next, windows will try to detect the port. when windows has finished searching, select 'custom' and click 'settings' make sure the raw protocol is selected. change the port number to match the usb port you have your printer plugged into on the print server. if you are using usb1 the port number is 9100, and if using usb2 the port number is 9101, click ok, then click 'next' and 'finish', close the printer ports box, and select your new port from the port list and click 'apply', go to the 'general' tab and print a test page. That should do it, it worked ok on my son's laptop with windows 7 home premium 64 bit os. hope this helps
Forgot to say that you should make sure 'raw tcp/ip printing' is ticked in the print server setup. to do this, open your browser and type in the ip address of the print server to access the web page setup. select 'Print Server Configuration' from the left hand menu and make sure the box is ticked, then apply changes if you need to."
"You can set up your printer without using the Belkin software in windows 7, install your printer as normal as if you had it plugged into your computer, go to the printer setting and select the ports tab, add a new port and select standard tcp/ip port and click 'new port'then click 'next', in the 'printer name or ip address' box type in the ip address of the print server, for example 192.169.1.8' then give the port a name, for example 'belkin port' and click next, windows will try to detect the port. when windows has finished searching, select 'custom' and click 'settings' make sure the raw protocol is selected. change the port number to match the usb port you have your printer plugged into on the print server. if you are using usb1 the port number is 9100, and if using usb2 the port number is 9101, click ok, then click 'next' and 'finish', close the printer ports box, and select your new port from the port list and click 'apply', go to the 'general' tab and print a test page. That should do it, it worked ok on my son's laptop with windows 7 home premium 64 bit os. hope this helps
Forgot to say that you should make sure 'raw tcp/ip printing' is ticked in the print server setup. to do this, open your browser and type in the ip address of the print server to access the web page setup. select 'Print Server Configuration' from the left hand menu and make sure the box is ticked, then apply changes if you need to."
