Need help reestablishing wireless connnection

we are now connected to a different router and modem and we cannot get the connect to printer wirelessly

Hi,
Please provide more details like what is the model no of the printer and the O\S used on the computer.
Although I am an HP employee, I am speaking for myself and not for HP.
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MacBook - Newbie: Need help on printing wirelessly to XP shared printer

MacBook - Newbie: Need help on printing to XP shared printer
Bear with me please. I read tons of articles on this but somehow as a newbie to MAC (girlfriends sick daughter), I am missing something. 10.5.2
Currently, she can print directly if we plug in the HP Deskjet printer directly via USB to the MACBook. No problem.
When we first got the MACBOOK I tried setting up the MACBOOK wirelessly to recognize the workgroup where the printer was attached via USB to the Windows XP PC. However it printed out garbage since I did not know there was a difference between XP printing and MAC (Gutenberg/gimp printing/drivers).
Now I know there is a difference.
But in reading various instructions, I no longer can find how to connect the MAC to the Windows workgroup. Note we do have a printer set up currently as USB-HP Deskjet on the Macbook (not sure I need to delete it yet).
I went to System Preferences on MACBOOK and clicked on printers, more printers. In the drop down box was CANON, APPLETALK, IP HP printing and Firewire. There was no WINDOWS selection as I saw in other online web instructions.
So not sure how to proceed to find a way to:
1. Connect to Windows workgroup (click on what exactly), step by step please!!
2. Add correct HP Deskjet 5490 printer (perhaps there is one with Gutenberg or perhaps I need Gutenprint-really not sure what I am talking about)
Thanks so much in advance. Fiancé's kid has had her cancer recur in a different place and someone was nice enough to buy her a MACBOOK as a gift.
Sincerely
Peter

ccarbery wrote:
OK...I figured it out...no need to reply. I noticed that there was another Protocol to use to set up the printer on the Mac, I was using LPD, so I switched it to HP Jet Direct-socket, and it prints fine...thanks. I am curious as to why LPD wouldn't work; if anyone has that answer I would like to know...thanks
Any chance of posting the Protocol you used to connect to your printer with your laptop? I'm have the exact same problem printing from my MB. Same error message "..is busy".

Need help setting up wireless file sharing

We have 3 iPhones, 3 iPads, and 2 iPod touch devices. We recently purchased the Apple air port extreme, air port express, apple tv, and a western digital external hard drive my book (for Mac) 2t. I need to know how to get photos from my phone to the hard drive wirelessly. My husband and I each have 1,200 photos on our phones we would like to back up to the hard drive. The air port app shows we have a hard drive connected, but we can't figure out how to move photos to it. Please help!

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Need help setting up wireless on G5 tower

I recently inherited a G5 tower and I am trying to set it up with my existing wireless connection. I currently have a D-link router that works for my laptop.
I am 99% sure that the G5 tower has Airport. It has an airport icon on the top of the screen, and I can turn it on/off. Also, under About This Mac -> More Info it shows an airport extreme card.
After setting up the computer, I was dissapointed to see that it didn't pick up a wireless signal. It is about 25-30ft from the wireless router. I bought an antenna because I thought it would fix the problem, but it still doesn't find any networks.
Am I missing something?? I am new to Macs so maybe I have to type in the network name or something? I would think it would just show up as an option when I open Internet Connect. Please help! I have been trying to figure this out for weeks and it is driving me crazy.
Reed

Hi Reed, and a warm welcome to the forums & Macdom!
Go to System Preferences
Click Network
Highlight AirPort and click Configure...
Then click the plus this time to add your access point. Enter the correct password, save, reboot.
(The Interface that connects to the Internet, needs to be drug to the top of Network>Show:>Network Port Configurations and checked ON.)

Need help setting up wireless internet network

I have a 1 GHz iMac G4 (purchased in 2003) that has a dsl connection to the internet via an ethernet cable and the dsl modem that was provided by my internet service (earthlink). My friend recently gave me her imac - same model. I've given it to my son for his room and would like to set up a wireless network so I can get his computer on the internet too.
I've read enough here to figure out that our computers are compatible with the AirPort Extreme card. But what other equipment do I need? How many Airport Extreme cards? an AirPort station?, a router? I'm clueless but very good at following instructions. So if there is an FAQ somewhere that would be helpful too.
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Sarah, Welcome to the discussion area!
You need a wireless router. You can use one of Apple's or a 3rd party wireless router.
You can connect one of the iMacs to the router via Ethernet if you want. Or you can add AirPort Extreme cards to both iMacs.

Need Help Troubleshooting MacBook Wireless

Hello,
I have looked on this forum and other forums about why the wireless is so noticeably slow.
We have an iBook 700 mhz. and now a new macbook 2GB Ram and 2.0 ghz and it is slower on surfing the web than the iBook.
I have read that it might be the intel chip inside, cordless phones or the settings. However, I need to know what steps I can take to find out the real problem.
I have the wireless connection showing a 55 signal strength and no noise with iStumbler. Are there any troubleshooting steps I can follow to get down to the bottom of the problem?
This is my wife's new computer and she is quite disappointed as I am too. We thought this would be much faster. Seems like it should be.
We are running 10.4.7 and my wireless access point is a Belkin F5D6130. Unfortunately, I was given the wireless modem second hand so I have no way of modifying the settings. It worked fine on our iBook without any changes.
Thanks,
Randal

Hello,
I talked with Apple today and they had me run a test on my iBook for connection speed and the same thing on the MacBook. My MacBook was 1/2 the iBook speed. The had me bring up http://www.2wire.com and the speed test is in the upper right corner.
They said it could be the card or my Belkin wireless modem. Therefore, I went to a neighbor that had a wireless signal and the system went to the same as the iBook speed at his house.
Therefore, it appears I will need a new wireless modem/router.
Hope this may help someone else.
Randal

Need help getting the wireless driver for my x120e.

This has been the most difficult thing ever. I have literally tried all of the wireless LAN and WAN drivers under all 4 of the x120e driver options. Which is odd because there are 4 options for the x120e when you search for it. As shown here: (http://i.imgur.com/4K9sB.png). I would love some help in getting the correct driver. Any and all help is appreciated, let me know if there is any other information needed.
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no worries.
you mentioned that you have tried a number of driver packs, to no avail.
can you confirm if you've tried this: http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS012809
ThinkPad 2x2 11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN PCI Express Half Mini Card Adapter for Windows 7 (32-bit, 64-bit), Vista (32-bit, 64-bit) and XP
found in the X120e driver matrix, here: http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/research/hints-or-tips/detail.page?&DocID=HT072377
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Need Help on Cisco Wireless Solution!

Hello Netpros!
I have some issues that probably most of wireless implementers faced after implementing a wireless solution. This is an actual feedback from the customer and These issues can be broken down to the following:
1. The wireless Network is slow! (wireless performance)
The customer has Airtight in placed and airtight reports that users are mostly connected to the wireless network on 2 mbps speed. Users also says that their network experience using wireless are slow compared to wired network.
My question is what reports or guides that cisco wireless cotroller system or WLC can shows that proves the network is working as it is intended. Any guides on how to improve the user experience? Any guide from Cisco IT?
During these slowness, what reports from WCS or WLC that can best shows the problems and helps us implementers to mitigate the problem?
2. Baseline Wireless Performance.
When asked about a baseline performance of wireless network, what reports from the WCS or WLC that can show this and what is the acceptable or baseline values?
3. Is there a general guideline on how to use WCS or WLC reporting tools to troubleshoot a wireless performance issue? What reports to see? and how to translate that to say to the customer that the wireless network is under performing?
The main reasons i am asking these questions is because i cannot find any useful documents in cisco that guides the wireless implementers on how to use the reports generated by WCS or WLC when it concerns the performance of the wireless.
Most of the reports WCS generate that relates to the performance normally rounds up the AP performance, channel, noise, but how to translate that to user concerns is another matter.
Perhaps these issues are partly due to user expectations or maybe the wireless setup need to be tweaked or even might requires a spectrum analyzer to pinpoint interferences.
In either cases, I hope netpros can help direct me to good documentation albeit from cisco or other sources that can best outline wireless performance reporting using cisco wcs and wlc.
Background information:
The wireless network setup has one WCS, one location appliance, 4 WLCs and around 150 to 200 APs, most running Local and some running HREAP. Most of the issues concerns the local type APs.
Thanking all in advance!
maldin

Yup,
thats what we told the customer and even showed them the wlc/wcs reports.
Unfortunately, these customers are lacking in wireless knowledge and they want a streamlined, documented steps to generate the reports and also to help them understand in laymen terms.
At the moment we are formulating a holistic approach to the customer to get them understand wireless first, get them to have a policy and enforce and then drill down to management, reporting and troubleshooting.
The thing is, the wireless is always working fine, but sometimes so it happens some bigshots unable to connect to the wireless network in meeting rooms or somewhere and the become jumpy and pointing fingers.
So the IT manager wants to reduces the finger pointing by having the WLC/WCS to produce reports to them.

Need help configuring: 2 wireless routers with 2 different SSID's on one network

Hello everyone:
I've been reading around on the forum trying to find the answer to this question, but have not found any clear cut answer that satisfies all my requirements. A more in-depth explanatiion.
I have 1 IP address coming in via cable modem. I want to configure two wireless routers (one secured with WPA-TKIP, and one unsecured--a "guest network" if you will) each with different SSID's. The secured network would be for my server, home PC's, IP webcams, DynDNS updating; while having an unsecured wireless router that friends and family can access. Ideally, I do not want anyone who accesses the unsecured wireless router to be able to get access into my secured network.
Can someone please tell me if this is possible. I think it is based on some posts I have already seen, but specific details about how to do it would be appreciated. Additionally, my DynDNS has to still be able to update with my ISP's IP so that I can access my server and home webcams.
EQUIPMENT
2 - WRT54G
1 - EZXS55W
1 - WVC200
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(all of my stuff --webcam, server, dyndns, etc -- is working currently on my secured network. I just need to add the unsecured network)
I know this is a lot, but I would appreciate any help. THANKS.
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You must have the main WRT54G router connected to the modem. Set up the secured wireless network on the main router. Connect all your wireless computers or devices to the main secured wireless network.
Let's consider the IP address of the main router is 192.168.1.1.
Now connect only one computer to the Port 1 on second wireless router.
Open the setup page of the second wireless router. Change the wireless settings, SSID, unsecured.
Change the IP address of the second router to 192.168.2.1. Save the settings.
Connect the cable from the Ethernet port on the main router to the Internet port on second wireless router.
Power cycle the second wireless router.
Now the guest computers connected to the second wireless unsecured wireless network will be able to access the Internet only. They will not able to see the computers or devices connected to the first wireless router.

I need Help Setting Up Wireless Router WRT54G on NTL

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I also found this thread which helps by showing when to clone the MAC address.
Using run cmd from XP's start menu and typing ipconfig /all will show the MAC address of your machine's NIC card, if you need it.
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I am trying to set up a wireless system for my laptop and am new to this and don't know if I can do what I want with what I have. I would like to have wireless internet access in my home so I can surf the net in different rooms and on the porch. I only have one laptop. I also would like to set up my printer wireless. This is what I was sold when I bought my computer and was told that this is what I needed. Also, My internet service is DSL Highspeed Light thru my telepone coop.
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I have hooked up the router and run the install program. After reading some on this forum one question I have is can I run wireless without a pc wired to the router? Any help will be appreciated by a novice.             Thanks

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Need help to solve Wireless issues

Hi guys,
I have a DSL connection with a very poor quality router (ISP provider needed). But when reaching 10 wireless users my network goes down so I’m looking a solution to expand my Wi-Fi capacity. I read that a Wi-fi router can help me, my question if this is correct and what options can I found here in Bestbuy in order not only to solve me capacity (maybe up to 30 concurrent users) but also I want to manage bandwidth for every connection.
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Up to 30? Just a guess, but are you perhaps a business owner?
At any rate, for 30 users, I'm almost tempted to steer you towards a business class WiFi router. Granted, yes, a "commercial" router will work, but a business class might also have options to limit bandwidth per user as well.
If you like my post, or solution to your issue/question, go ahead and click on the little star by my name and/or accept the post as the Solution. It makes me happy.
I'm NOT an employee of Best Buy, or Geek Squad, though I did work as an Agent for a year 5 years ago. None of my posts are to be taken as the official stance that Best Buy will take on your situation. My advice is just that, advice.
Unfortunately, that's the bad luck of any electronic, there's going to be bad Apples... wait that's a horrible pun.

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hi can someone help me i am trying to connect a Dell Latitude D820 to a Linksys WRT54G5 everytime i try to connect wireless to it i get internet for 2minutes then i keep getting disconnected. Can someone help me or think of anything that could be wrong. the wireless adaptor for the laptop is a Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card Rev. 3.6.
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try changing the wireless settings on the router
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Need Help setting up wireless router

Hi, ive spent the week on the phone trying to reach all the various technical support people to help me, and getting no where, i wait forever and then get dropped.
I just got time warner cable in NYC (queens) and the modem and internet surfing works fine if I use a USB cable from the modem to my computer, the problem is the ethernet doesnt work, and I dont have drivers for ethernet, but im more interested in setting up wireless from the modem, to the wireless router to my computer with the wireless card.
I accidently installed some kind of microsoft tcp/ip thingy when surfing around my computer trying to fix this and now I cant use the wireless router and card.
I dont want to spend hours on the phone in a tech support message maze, so please help me thru PM.
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Hi Mark, first off let me know are you able to go online directly with the modem, if computer is connected directly to the ethernet port of modem? if not, i think ethernet port of the modem is not working or may be it's defective or drivers for ethernet adapter is not installed , as you've mentioned you can able to go online with the USB cable, once computer is connnected directly to the USB port of modem...unless and untill ethernet port on the modem is not working you won't be able to configure the wireless router... router doesn't have USB port on it... anyways connect modem to the ethernet port of the router >> computer (wireless), reset the router back to factory default settings by pressing reset button on the back panel of the router... release the reset button after 30 seconds, power cycle the network by unplugging power cable of the modem and router... wait for couple of minutes and power up the modem first and wait for few seconds once modem is rebooted, after that power up the router, check the light status power, WLAN and internet light on the router should be on... try connecting to "linksys" wireless n/w from wireless pc...check whether it works or not and let me know...

Need help identifying Apple Wireless Mouse

I was given a PowerBook G4 laptop at a recent Mac user group meeting. My plan for the computer is to donate the laptop and the parts and pieces given to me to a local agency. The agency will then give it so some family that needs but can't afford a computer.
The computer came with Tiger, and I have the disks. But the (presumed) original owner has installed 10.5 Leopard and I have the disk for that.
In looking around Apple, I think this is a bluetooth version of the Mighty Mouse. But I've been unable to locate a photo that matches this mouse.
It looks like a Mighty Mouse on the outside, but remove the battery cover and it doesn't match any photo and/or manual I've found.
At the end of the mouse where the sliding switch/LED cover is located, and under the cover, there is a sliding switch marked + and -. On the batt cover, the Model is A1015 but a search has returned 0 results.
I assume that to turn the mouse on, you slide the cover to expose the LED light. And, the light should turn on. But, it doesn't. The batteries are good.
In looking at the mouse, I think the sliding cover should depress what I'll call a switch, ahen when I manually depress the switch, the LED turns on, and is discovered. Without the light on, the computer will not discover the mouse. After discovery, and continuing to hold the switch down to keep the LED on, the mouse will not pair up to the computer. Just for FYI, I get the same results trying to pair to my iMac with Snow Leopard 10.6.8.
Which leaves me with the following questions:
Is this a Mighty Mouse?
Is there a manual and/or photo of this mouse somewhere?
Should the red LED turn on when the sliding cover exposes the LED?
Will it only work with Tiger?
Is there something small that is missing from the battery cover that would depress the switch properly?
Does it only work with Tiger?
What does the switch with the + and - do?
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Hi, twtwtw,
well, without having it in hand I can't really see how it's supposed to attach or what exactly it does.
Photos of the battery cover and spring disasembled and assembled.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lpw15yseg0a5w2m/Battery%20cover%20unassembled.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/56sbnv31usewthr/Battery%20cover%20assembled.jpg
I just have the pieces laying in the correct position, no permanent repair. Would have simply thrown them on the scanner, but the all-in-one unit with scanner that was installed was removed yesterday to be donated with the laptop mentioned in my original post.
The round end of the spring pops the battery cover off when the latch is released. The other end depresses the switch in the mouse when the slide in the battery cover is moved.
it looks like they can be taken apart - there's a teardown of a different model at ifixit.com, which you might be able to adapt.
The wired version of a mouse similar in construction to that unit came with my iMac. When the trackball stopped scrolling, I found out you had to end up using Super Glue to reassemble, and that's no way to design a product, IMO. But, I always hated that mouse, it didn't fit my hand, and typing on the keyboard reminds me of the horrible "chiclet" keypads of yesteryear, and I replaced both with an old Apple Pro keyboard and a Microsoft USB wireless mouse that actually fit my hand!!! What a concept!
The thing at the top (between the +/-) looks more like a latch than a switch to me. is it holding the bottom plate in place?
There is the proverbial Tab A on the cover that fits into Slot B on the mouse, but the the sliding thing does nothing to affect the tab/slot that I can determine. Possibly, it may control the amount of movement vertically you apply to get a "mouse press", but at the moment I've not tested that theory.
I think the +/- bit really is just a guide for battery installation.
"Illogical", as Mr. Spock would say. The orientation of the +/- is 90º to the battery installation. And both batteries are installed with the + end towards this end of the mouse.
if attaching the the piece of metal is just a matter of broken pins, though, you could try super-gluing it in place.
Super glue was my first thought, but spring steel is hard to get liquid type adhesives to adhere to. I also thought of using Gorilla Glue, if you're familiar with it. It's hard to find stuff that Gorilla Glue won't bond to with some degree of success.
I dug out my freestanding magnifier, and it almost looks like the "pins" probably had an upper, smaller in dia. part, that may have been melted over the spring to hold the spring in place.
and no matter what you say, tape is always an option.
LOL! Hope that was a joke for real, as that never an option for my repairs. If done, it's cheap and cheezy, as if you don't care what kind of workmanship you have.
With respect to the link... did you seriously keep hitting that link and sitting through the sarcasimation, rather than typing the words into a new google window yourself? Heck, you could have copy/pasted the text instead of typing it, or bookmarked the resulting google page for future reference, or..., or...
To start with, Google is almost never my search engine of first choice. Why? I've not trusted them with anything since they were caught violating privacy issues, more than once. My first choices are DuckDuckGo, Startpage, and IxQuick, because those search engines do not track your searches and surfing habits. Where I go and what I do is no one's business. I don't want that info given/sold/stolen by marketers, spammers, scammers, hackers, et. al.
Startpage and IxQuick appear to be from the same folks.
So I have all the trackers blocked as best as possible, Javascript disabled, etc., which makes getting the encrypted URL to work is, well, extra work. Simply copying and pasting the encrypted URL is therefore blocked. I see no value other than shorter typed links in email, forums, newsgroups, etc. to the shortened links, plus making bucks for the folks at TinyURL and others that create them for you. And of course, they are tracking you to.
So, as you may have guessed by now, I do not use Safari. <grin>
I didn't plan on doing it more than once, but had to when you replied. And I've already got too damned many bookmarks.
Dude.
And I'm neither a Dude or Dudette. But been online before there was a world wide web, and a 1200 baud modem was state of the art.
It seems to me that you are suffering from a chronic case of missing-the-point. The first time you clicked that link it was me wasting your time; my bad, but gotcha, laughs all around.
Did not miss the point, and I am not laughing. Wasting the time of your friends is one thing, wasting the time of strangers is simply bad manners.
Any time you clicked it after that you knew what was going to happen, so you were wasting your own time. You're complaining that your time is being wasted because you just won't google it yourself - what am I supposed to do with that except ?
I will plead guilty to assuming that Apple would have documentation on their own website, n'cest-ce pas? (To save you some Googling and unencrypting URLs, http://www.yourdictionary.com/n-est-ce-pas) If Apple had the info on their site, the seach engine would/should have found that link, and I would than have wasted my time with a Google search when it shouldn't have been necessary. I learned a long time ago, to always, always check the mfgr.'s site first for the correct information.

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