How to find or set printer IP address for wireless?

[Stephen Partington]

random is the wrong word, but yes the end result is that the IP
configuration is not compatible with hsi network. this should be configured
on the printer directly. no software can do this until it can connect.


On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Matt Graham <mhgraham at crow202.org> wrote:

> Joe wrote:
>>
>>> Still can't figure out how to find or set the IP address for the printer:
>>> http://upquick.com/temp/find.printer.ip.jpg
>>> http://upquick.com/temp/printer.settings.jpg
>>>
>>
> If things were working correctly, the printer should show up in the "LAN
> Device List" tab on the modem part of the find.printer.ip.jpg picture.  The
> other JPEG shows that the printer thinks its IP address is 169.254.94.163
> --which is a zeroconf address and not in the address range of
> 192.168.0.1/24 the way everything else you've got is.
>
> On 2014-06-17 20:59, Stephen Partington wrote:
>
>> So the printer is using a random ip address.
>>
>
> Not really random.  It's in the range where devices are supposed to pick
> an address if they can't find a DHCP server.  That and the "Ad-Hoc" line in
> the printer settings JPEG makes me think that the printer hasn't been set
> up with the ESSID and password for your wireless access point.  I Could Be
> Wrong.
>
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