[Wirelessdriver-support] Printing workaround

[Jonathan L. @ T. F. <jon...@th...>]

Hey people,

    Just sitting around my SOHO on Sunday afternoon, screwing around with
the wireless driver, trying to find a workaround, and guess what? I got it.
Here's my set-up:

G3 PowerBook (Wallstreet) 233 mhz
Lucent Wavelan Silver PC card
Xrouter Aero
Lexmark Optra RN+

    I found the IP address of the printer on my Xrouter Aero, manually
started the IP protocol on the printer (rather than Appletalk, though
Appletalk is active on the Powerbook), manually entered the IP address,
Subnet mask, and router/gateway address on the printer.
    Then I opened a document, hit Print, edit printer list, add printer,
switched to LPR Printers using IP, entered the Lexmark's IP address, and
hey, presto!
    I was having the same problem before with printing via Appletalk, which
was how I printed in OS9.x and is, in fact, how I print with my G4 tower to
the Lexmark right now.
    Don't know if this is obvious, or whether it will help anyone reclaim
the wireless printing abilities they had under OS 9.x, but I'm happy about
it!

Best -- j

  Jonathan Lyons
  http://www.the-foundry.net
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