Anyone got this working over a LAN under CentOS? The instructions claim it is easy to connect after pressing the WPS button on printer and router.
Sadly, I don't see a WPS button on my Linksys WRT54GL router. When I press the WPS button on the printer the WiFi icon flashes, but I don't see any attempt to connect in /var/log/messages on my CentOS-5.5 server.
Any advice or suggestions gratefully received.
2010/11/29 Timothy Murphy gayleard@eircom.net:
Anyone got this working over a LAN under CentOS? The instructions claim it is easy to connect after pressing the WPS button on printer and router.
Sadly, I don't see a WPS button on my Linksys WRT54GL router. When I press the WPS button on the printer the WiFi icon flashes, but I don't see any attempt to connect in /var/log/messages on my CentOS-5.5 server.
http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Samsung/Samsung-CLP-325w
at least printer is supported. You should configure wlan by hand..
-- Eero
Eero Volotinen wrote:
Anyone got this working over a LAN under CentOS?
http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Samsung/Samsung-CLP-325w
at least printer is supported.
I did read this web-page. Unfortunately the author does not say whether he/she configured the printer to work through WiFi.
You should configure wlan by hand..
How, exactly?
On 11/30/10 6:26 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
You should configure wlan by hand..
How, exactly?
probably by hooking the printer up to ethernet, finding its IP address (maybe on a self-test printout?) then connecting to its IP with whatever configuration management they offer (my Brother has a webserver in it), and setup the wireless for whatever you use (WPA-PSK, the passkey, the SSID, etc), then see if you can disconnect the ethernet and it comes up on wireless.
then you'd need to find the IP its been assigned on wireless, and point the Linux print drivers at that IP.
On 11/29/10 11:50 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Anyone got this working over a LAN under CentOS? The instructions claim it is easy to connect after pressing the WPS button on printer and router.
Sadly, I don't see a WPS button on my Linksys WRT54GL router.
thats not going to do anything if your router doesn't support 'wifi protected setup' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Protected_Setup
When I press the WPS button on the printer the WiFi icon flashes, but I don't see any attempt to connect in /var/log/messages on my CentOS-5.5 server.
why would you? it hasn't gotten on the wireless yet, so your server can't possibly see it.
does this printer have any other connectivity options? if its got ethernet, maybe you can plug it in via ethernet, and then access its wireless configuration and manually set it up
John R Pierce wrote:
The instructions claim it is easy to connect after pressing the WPS button on printer and router.
Sadly, I don't see a WPS button on my Linksys WRT54GL router.
does this printer have any other connectivity options?
It does; I have set it up using an Ethernet connection to my router.
if its got ethernet, maybe you can plug it in via ethernet, and then access its wireless configuration and manually set it up
Unfortunately, I don't see any way of setting up a wireless configuration even though I can access the printer's web-page at its IP address.
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 07:50:45PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Anyone got this working over a LAN under CentOS? The instructions claim it is easy to connect after pressing the WPS button on printer and router.
Sadly, I don't see a WPS button on my Linksys WRT54GL router.
I'm not at home right now where I can go look, but I think MY wrt54gl has a WPS button. I've never found a use for it, however, as I always configure things by hand so I know what they're set to.
As someone else has already suggested, if you can access the printer via hard-wired network, you can set it up the way you want instead of the way some marketing-droid thinks he'd like you to do it.
When I press the WPS button on the printer the WiFi icon flashes, but I don't see any attempt to connect in /var/log/messages on my CentOS-5.5 server.
Any advice or suggestions gratefully received.
-- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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fred smith wrote:
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 07:50:45PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Anyone got this working over a LAN under CentOS? The instructions claim it is easy to connect after pressing the WPS button on printer and router.
Sadly, I don't see a WPS button on my Linksys WRT54GL router.
I'm not at home right now where I can go look, but I think MY wrt54gl has a WPS button. I've never found a use for it,
I've looked carefully, and I'm pretty sure there is no such button on my WRT54GL; the only button is called Reset.
As someone else has already suggested, if you can access the printer via hard-wired network, you can set it up the way you want instead of the way some marketing-droid thinks he'd like you to do it.
I've installed the UnifiedLinuxDriver_1.07 from Samsung, and this allows me to setup (and use) the printer after connecting to my router with ethernet, and then I can access the printer web-page at the IP address (192.168.2.33) given by dhcpd on my LAN.
Unfortunately this web-page does not indicate any way of connecting the printer by WiFi.
It seems to me that I shall have to run Windows on my server, at least temporarily, to setup this printer as a WiFi device.
On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 02:19:21AM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
fred smith wrote:
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 07:50:45PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Anyone got this working over a LAN under CentOS? The instructions claim it is easy to connect after pressing the WPS button on printer and router.
Sadly, I don't see a WPS button on my Linksys WRT54GL router.
I'm not at home right now where I can go look, but I think MY wrt54gl has a WPS button. I've never found a use for it,
I've looked carefully, and I'm pretty sure there is no such button on my WRT54GL; the only button is called Reset.
I'm at home now, so I just took a look at my wrt54gl and you're right, nothing labeled WPS. but it has something labeled "easy secure setup" which may , or may not, be the same thing. whatever it is, I've never used it.
As someone else has already suggested, if you can access the printer via hard-wired network, you can set it up the way you want instead of the way some marketing-droid thinks he'd like you to do it.
I've installed the UnifiedLinuxDriver_1.07 from Samsung, and this allows me to setup (and use) the printer after connecting to my router with ethernet, and then I can access the printer web-page at the IP address (192.168.2.33) given by dhcpd on my LAN.
Unfortunately this web-page does not indicate any way of connecting the printer by WiFi.
It seems to me that I shall have to run Windows on my server, at least temporarily, to setup this printer as a WiFi device.
there's gotta be a way. or one would think so. Does the MFG provide any user forums where you might find a solution?
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