I guess I'm hoping for a miracle here, so we'll see. Here's the problem.

I have a Dell Vostro laptop with Win Vista. At the lake house I have a HP
wireless printer that prints anywhere I'm within range. At home/home I have a
Dell Dimension desktop with Win XP Pro. I want to hook the printer up to the
desktop via USB, but really do not care if it's wireless.

I've had two wireless printers connected, a Lexmark X6550 wireless and a HP
J6400 wireless, and here's what happens.

With Lexmark printer, the printer installed to desktop wireless and USB and
printed w/no problems. Then I set up printer on laptop wirelessly. Upon
initial setup the printer printed and everything worked just fine. Then when
I shutdown and restart the laptop, the Internet service to the desktop
(connected to router via ethernet cable) and the laptop failed, i.e. neither
would connect to the Internet. It's like the router got mangled somehow. To
resolve issue I had to turn the printer off, restart the DSL modem, restart
the Linksys router and then restart the computers. As soon as I turn the
printer back on and the WIFI lights the problem reoccurs. As long as printer
is off, no problem.

With HP printer, only the laptop is affect and can't get to the Internet
with the printer WIFI is active. If printer is off or WIFI not active, no
problem.

I spent six hours on the phone with Lexmark T/S to include 1 1/2 hours with
an "ENGINEER" and was not able to resolve the problem.

I spent four hours on the phone with HP T/S and was not able to resolve the
problem.

Looks like I should be a good candidate for the "Stump the Technician
Award", but probably no such luck.

I've uninstalled, reinstalled, tried to set up printer manually to include
talking w/Linksys about the router settings with no luck.

I'd apprecaite any help available on this issue. TIA

KenP

Does your printer have a static ip address that is conflicting with you
computer?


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SuperXero

All IP's are unique. Even set printer IP manually and that did not help. The
Linksys Router does not show the printer IP in the DHCP table, but Linksys
say that not router problem.
Thanks.

"SuperXero" wrote:


Does your printer have a static ip address that is conflicting with you
computer?


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SuperXero