Re: Convert Ethernet Printer To Wireless RESOLVED- SORTA'

From	Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA>
Newsgroups	comp.periphs.printers, comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Convert Ethernet Printer To Wireless RESOLVED- SORTA'
Date	2021-07-10 22:22 +0200
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You may be able to to connect it to the one WiFi and via USB to
the PC on the other from which it is shared. Works on my setup
for a Canon MF8200C and a Mac.

el

On 2021-07-10 15:02 , Wolffan wrote:
> On 2021 Jul 08, Wade Garrett wrote
> (in article <sc6oe3$q0o$1@dont-email.me>):
> 
>> On 7/5/21 9:37 AM, Wade Garrett wrote:
>>> I want to set up a Canon MF216n Ethernet printer as a wireless printer.
>>>
>>> I have a spare router to use-- though that router would not be able to
>>> be connected to the internet. That's because my gateway is several rooms
>>> away from where the printer is as that is where the internet cable comes
>>> into the house.
>>>
>>> So I connect the printer to the router-- then what?
>>
>> I disconnected the printer from my iMac by removing the USB cable, then
>> connected the printer to the spare router with an Ethernet cable, and
>> changed the selected WiFi network on my iMac to that router's network.
>>
>> The good news:
>> I was then able to add the printer to my iMac and print to it wirelessly.
>>
>> The bad news:
>> I could not print wirelessly from a Chromebook, iPad, or iPhone...none
>> of which could see the printer when connected to the spare router's
>> network.
>>
>> A Dell Windows laptop could see the printer but I could not install a
>> working printer driver to it so it would not print.
> 
> if you have two different networks, a device on one net ain’t gonna see a
> device on the other. You would have to change the net that the iPad/whatever
> is on for it to see the second net. I suspect that the Dell could see the
> printer because it was on the second net. I would recommend connecting the
> two routers by Ethernet, and put one into bridge mode, and thereby setting up
> just one net.
>

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Convert Ethernet Printer To Wireless Wade Garrett <wade@cooler.net> - 2021-07-05 09:37 -0400
  Re: Convert Ethernet Printer To Wireless nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2021-07-05 10:28 -0400
  Re: Convert Ethernet Printer To Wireless Wolffan <akwolffan@zoho.com> - 2021-07-05 10:49 -0400
    Re: Convert Ethernet Printer To Wireless Wade Garrett <wade@cooler.net> - 2021-07-05 10:59 -0400
      Re: Convert Ethernet Printer To Wireless nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2021-07-05 11:07 -0400
      Re: Convert Ethernet Printer To Wireless Percival John Hackworth <pjh@nanoworks.com> - 2021-07-05 16:20 +0000
        Re: Convert Ethernet Printer To Wireless Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2021-07-05 22:37 +0000
        Re: Convert Ethernet Printer To Wireless Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> - 2021-07-06 01:16 +0200
          Re: Convert Ethernet Printer To Wireless Percival John Hackworth <pjh@nanoworks.com> - 2021-07-06 03:56 +0000
            Re: Convert Ethernet Printer To Wireless Alan Baker <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> - 2021-07-05 21:41 -0700
              Re: Convert Ethernet Printer To Wireless Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2021-07-06 13:11 +0000
                Re: Convert Ethernet Printer To Wireless Alan Baker <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> - 2021-07-06 10:11 -0700
                Re: Convert Ethernet Printer To Wireless Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2021-07-06 21:36 +0000
                Re: Convert Ethernet Printer To Wireless Alan Baker <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> - 2021-07-06 14:38 -0700
                Re: Convert Ethernet Printer To Wireless Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2021-07-07 07:24 +0000
            Re: Convert Ethernet Printer To Wireless Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2021-07-06 13:49 -0400
      Re: Convert Ethernet Printer To Wireless Wolffan <akwolffan@zoho.com> - 2021-07-05 13:22 -0400
      Re: Convert Ethernet Printer To Wireless Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2021-07-05 15:35 -0400
    Re: Convert Ethernet Printer To Wireless nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2021-07-05 11:02 -0400
      Re: Convert Ethernet Printer To Wireless paul <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2021-07-06 19:06 +0200
        Re: Convert Ethernet Printer To Wireless nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2021-07-06 15:54 -0400
          Re: Convert Ethernet Printer To Wireless paul <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2021-07-07 05:50 +0200
  Re: Convert Ethernet Printer To Wireless Bennett Price <bjprice@cal.berkeley.edu> - 2021-07-05 09:57 -0700
  Re: Convert Ethernet Printer To Wireless RESOLVED- SORTA' Wade Garrett <wade@cooler.net> - 2021-07-08 07:44 -0400
    Re: Convert Ethernet Printer To Wireless RESOLVED- SORTA' Dr Eberhard Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> - 2021-07-08 14:04 +0200
    Re: Convert Ethernet Printer To Wireless RESOLVED- SORTA' nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2021-07-08 09:35 -0400
    Re: Convert Ethernet Printer To Wireless RESOLVED- SORTA' Wolffan <akwolffan@zoho.com> - 2021-07-10 09:02 -0400
      Re: Convert Ethernet Printer To Wireless RESOLVED- SORTA' Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA> - 2021-07-10 22:22 +0200
    Re: Convert Ethernet Printer To Wireless-- PROJECT ABANDONED! Wade Garrett <wade@cooler.net> - 2021-07-12 07:26 -0400
      Re: Convert Ethernet Printer To Wireless-- PROJECT ABANDONED! Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2021-07-12 13:37 +0000

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