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Options for setting up a wireless printer
I recently picked up a old HP psc 2510 photosmart all-in-one printer at a yard sale for 10 bucks in great condition. Problem is, it was missing all documentation and driver CD. Fortunately, HP included "in-OS" drivers for Win 7, so I was able to set it up over USB very easily. But now I'm trying to get it up and running with wireless printing, which it supports on XP, but isn't perfectly ported to 7.
Following the advice from the 4th comment on Re: HP PSC 2510 Photostmart drivers for WIndows 7 - Page 4 - HP Support Forum, I was able to connect to it via my wifi network when I plug an Ethernet cable into the printer.
Now, this works, but being a huge nerd, I think it'd be even better if I could set the printer up to be completely wireless. I'm not much of an expert on the finer workings of wireless connections, but I think it's possible to do this with an ad hoc netwrok. But I can't find any instructions for doing this on 7. Closest thing I found was this page with instructionsfor XP, which I was unable to follow on 7.
Since the printer has an on-screen option to enable or disable the "wireless radio" which can only be turned on when the ethernet cable is unplugged, I assume this functionality is to broadcast the "hpsetup" ad hoc network from the printer without it being connected to a router (since I don't think it can connect to an actual wifi network wirelessly; but if it can, it'd be great to know how to do that too!). But even when I do see the hpsetup network in my wifi list, I can never connect to it from my laptop.
I have a feeling I'm probably missing some important concept of how ad hoc networks work, and that that pack of knowledge is the cause of all my problems If anyone could help me out here I'd really appreciate it. If worse comes to worse, I'll just be happy printing over wifi with the printer connected via ethernet to my router. But I'm sure theres a way to set it up totally wirelessly. thanks!
P.S. I'm the same Slammer from over at vista64 forums, and I'll update all my profile stuff sometime tomorrow :) so hi to anyone I know from over there!