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Connecting my laptop to a printer via WiFi
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 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! |
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Connecting my laptop to a printer via WiFi
Try asking this in: microsoft.public.win98.networking
--=20 Brian A. Jack of all trades, Master of none. One can never truly be a master as there is always more to learn. "John Kirton" wrote in message = ... 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. =20 My problem now is that I have an Epson WiFi printer with its little server, and a notebook with a Buffalo WiFi cardbus card. =20 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. =20 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. =20 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! =20 Please! |
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Connecting my laptop to a printer via WiFi
"Brian A." GoneFishn@aFarAwayLake wrote:
Try asking this in: microsoft.public.win98.networking Thanks, I now have.... but since, apparently, you're a jack of all trades, I'm disappointed. |
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Connecting my laptop to a printer via WiFi
Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity) is not on my list for networking. I run all =
CAT5 & CAT6 cable for my network. --=20 Brian A. Jack of all trades, Master of none. One can never truly be a master as there is always more to learn. "John Kirton" wrote in message = ... "Brian A." GoneFishn@aFarAwayLake wrote: =20 Try asking this in: microsoft.public.win98.networking =20 Thanks, I now have.... but since, apparently, you're a jack of all trades, I'm disappointed. |
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