I just moved into a condo and the building provides the residents with free wifi. At my old place I had a Linksys WPSM54G v1.1 wireless G Printer server

I had a router from TWC in my house there so no issue. Online it looks like most say you have to have access to the actual router to get it configured but was hoping someone might be able to help me set it up without this since I don't have any idea where the router is in the building.

Thanks

5/5/2009 3:43:47 PM

depends how their access point(s) are setup. you could probably get it going actually

5/5/2009 3:47:07 PM

^anything I can look specifically that may help you figure out if there is a way. Looks like everything is wide open.


Assigned by DHCP

Access Point
network authen: open

encryption: disabled

5/5/2009 3:51:41 PM

I don't really know how those work. I know if I was setting up a regular networkable printer I'd just set the IP on the printer to an address that's open on the same subnet as your computer or let DHCP assign it then set it up in windows with a printer port to that IP address..manually add printer, tell is to use that port and yea, get to printing. it varies by OS and I'm completely going from memory here..but should be possible

5/5/2009 4:08:31 PM

hm dont know why u would need access to the router (though i haven't messed with print servers much)

just set the ip to something in the upper range of the allowable ips.maybe if you put the results of an ipconfig /all here someone could help you with the print server settings.

or can you set them to grab everything automatically like your computer?

5/5/2009 5:27:01 PM

Yeah when you use the linksys walkthrough to set it up it ask to plug ethernet cord into router and the print server to allow it to set up some stuff that is where I run into problems as I don't have access to the router in my building.

I ran ipconfig/all and here are the results:

5/5/2009 6:17:11 PM

the print server does say the ip address is: 192.168.1.100 if that helps anything at all. It will not let me change this though

5/5/2009 6:21:00 PM

what OS? and what kind of printer?

5/6/2009 9:37:28 AM

Windows XP

Printer: HP PSC1315 All in one

5/6/2009 11:04:49 AM

well personally i'd try installing the printer via USB first..get all the drivers and shit installed then go to control panel, printers, right click on the printer, go to properties, ports tab, add port, standard TCP/IP Port, put in the IP of the printer wireless thing and see if that works.

i have no idea how that wireless print server actually tho works so no idea if that will work. it would work fine on a normal networkable printer, though.

5/6/2009 11:08:30 AM

You don't need access to the router, you just need an ethernet cable ran from your PC to the WPSM54G to make life easier. Set your LAN ip to 192.168.1.x and pop open the print server's webGUI at 192.168.1.100 (if DHCP handed you .117 then chances are .100 is already assigned and you can't get to it through your wireless card) then check the status page or whatever for the current wireless IP is.

http://www.angryziber.com/ipscan/ipscan.exe

alternatively, you could grab that and scan your network to see what DHCP address the print server has and use that when setting up the TCP/IP printer port as ^ mentioned.

Either way it sounds like the print server is pretty much plug and play, especially if it's on an unsecured open network, you just need to find it. Which, by the way if anyone else does step #2 they could potentially have some fun with you and tubgirl pictures.

5/6/2009 11:45:16 AM

Thanks guys a combination of things made it work most of what you mentioned.

5/6/2009 5:45:33 PM