Ethernet printer

19 Jul 2008 15:28:23

Lionel Ogden

I am having a little problem connecting to my HP printer which is connected to my home network by ethernet. I can connect to the printer from my intel iMac running 10.5.4, my intel MacBook running 10.5.3 and my G3 iMac running 10.4.11 when they too are connected by ethernet cable. However, only the G3 iMac will connect by airport if the ethernet cable is unplugged. Both of the intel computers on 10.5 cannot recognise the printer via airport. All the computers can access the internet via the router when using airport. The router is a Zoom X6 wireless modem router with 4 ethernet ports.

The iMac and Mac Book, I understand are both 802.11n compatible, but the printer is not. However I thought that both of these computers were b,g and n compatible.

All of the devices appear to be on the same subnet

Any thoughts

Re: Ethernet printer

20 Jul 2008 19:04:51

Terry Willis

Could the Intel Macs connect at anytime in the past via airport?

Re: Ethernet printer

22 Jul 2008 17:15:30

Lionel Ogden

Some progress, I installed a firmware upgrade to the router and now I can print most of the time via airport from all the computers. I say most of the time because for no apparent reason from time to time the MacBook cannot "get through".

In answer to Terry's question, all the computers can connect to each other by wire or wireless , but until now the two intel macs could only connect to the printer via the wired ethernet connections. The old G3, bless it, has been able to connect to the printer in both ways from the beginning.

Re: Ethernet printer

22 Jul 2008 21:54:50

Terry Willis

Is the printer attached directly to the router?

Re: Ethernet printer

23 Jul 2008 21:46:40

Lionel Ogden

Yes it has an ethernet port on it which is connected to the router by ethernet cable

Re: Ethernet printer

23 Jul 2008 22:12:16

Terry Willis

Sorry more questions... I assume then that it is a Network printer (ie; It has it's own network card)!?

Re: Ethernet printer

27 Jul 2008 17:05:13

Lionel Ogden

Yes, it is specified as having a network and USB option and after installing the firmware upgrade to my router it now works with the MacBook too.