Newbie wants advice on how to connect PC with print server.

I confess that I find the technical aspects of networking very
confusing. Even a job as intuitively simple as getting two PCs to
communicate via a null modem cable and MS direct cable connect gets me
into all kinds of difficulty with passwords and protocols.

My problem now is that I have an Epson WiFi printer with its little
server, and a notebook (tosh sat pro 6000 with 98SE) with a Buffalo
WiFi cardbus card.

I've succeeded in giving myself many hours of recovery work when I
lost broadband access as a result of playing around with the network
settings in an attempt to get WiFi communication between PC and
printer via the server. The epson instructions don't work for me and
are dreadfully confusing to a novice in networking, though I've 20
years experience of computing.

I've read two chapters in the Que book on Win98se, twice, and I still
can't fathom the whole thing - those screens you get when you enter
networks from control panel confuse me.

So please, someone ... all I want to do is print via Wifi to my epson
1900WiFi printer. Surely there must be some simple instructions that
will enable an elderly physics PhD to get success!

Please!

Well, I just followed the instructions that came with my print server
and everything works. I have a D-Link server that plugs into the
parallel port on the Epson printer. But you don't say what else you
have in your system. Do you have a router and a network? Or are you
just trying to connect the laptop to the printer, one on one?

hawk

John Kirton wrote:

> I confess that I find the technical aspects of networking very
> confusing. Even a job as intuitively simple as getting two PCs to
> communicate via a null modem cable and MS direct cable connect gets me
> into all kinds of difficulty with passwords and protocols.
>
> My problem now is that I have an Epson WiFi printer with its little
> server, and a notebook (tosh sat pro 6000 with 98SE) with a Buffalo
> WiFi cardbus card.
>
> I've succeeded in giving myself many hours of recovery work when I
> lost broadband access as a result of playing around with the network
> settings in an attempt to get WiFi communication between PC and
> printer via the server. The epson instructions don't work for me and
> are dreadfully confusing to a novice in networking, though I've 20
> years experience of computing.
>
> I've read two chapters in the Que book on Win98se, twice, and I still
> can't fathom the whole thing - those screens you get when you enter
> networks from control panel confuse me.
>
> So please, someone ... all I want to do is print via Wifi to my epson
> 1900WiFi printer. Surely there must be some simple instructions that
> will enable an elderly physics PhD to get success!
>
> Please!

hawk <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Well, I just followed the instructions that came with my print server
>and everything works. I have a D-Link server that plugs into the
>parallel port on the Epson printer. But you don't say what else you
>have in your system. Do you have a router and a network? Or are you
>just trying to connect the laptop to the printer, one on one?
>

Hi, thanks for the response.

No router, no other peripherals whilst I am trying to get the
notebook, with Buffalo cardbus card, to talk to the Epson print
server.

I can successfully follow the instructions to configue the print
server via a usb connection between notebook and server but can't get
a message to the printer when I switch the usb connection from the
notebook to the printer. The wifi software/card refuses to recognise
the server.

Alternatively, I can reinitialise the server, and detect it
immediately with the wifi software on my notebook. But then, when I
attempt to get a message to the printer, the system can't find the
printer.

I'm missing a trick somewhere.

--
John

Alterna

I'm almost ashamed that I can't do something so conceptually simple.

Well, I have always used a router, so I am no expert on what you are
trying to do. Maybe not even be possible. But, when you set up a
"network" without a router it is called an adhoc network. Check your
instructions for the print server and for the wireless card for adhoc
networks.

hawk

John Kirton wrote:

> hawk <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>
>>Well, I just followed the instructions that came with my print server
>>and everything works. I have a D-Link server that plugs into the
>>parallel port on the Epson printer. But you don't say what else you
>>have in your system. Do you have a router and a network? Or are you
>>just trying to connect the laptop to the printer, one on one?
>>
>
>
> Hi, thanks for the response.
>
> No router, no other peripherals whilst I am trying to get the
> notebook, with Buffalo cardbus card, to talk to the Epson print
> server.
>
> I can successfully follow the instructions to configue the print
> server via a usb connection between notebook and server but can't get
> a message to the printer when I switch the usb connection from the
> notebook to the printer. The wifi software/card refuses to recognise
> the server.
>
> Alternatively, I can reinitialise the server, and detect it
> immediately with the wifi software on my notebook. But then, when I
> attempt to get a message to the printer, the system can't find the
> printer.
>
> I'm missing a trick somewhere.
>
> --
> John
>
> Alterna
>
> I'm almost ashamed that I can't do something so conceptually simple.