hello
i’m trying to install hp m110w printer wirelessly. i get this message after scanning for printers. the wireless button was pressed during the attempts.
it is a gnome manjaro installation is is connected by an ethernet cable to a wireless router.
perhaps i need to take the printer more close to the router?
First: does the printer respond to ping? eg $ ping [nameofprinter]
If that fails, the devicemanager probably fails for this reason, there is no connection or name is not correct.
Make sure to follow the HP instructions to add the printer to the network.
Some guidance:
What are the results? (please do not post screenshots)
example
The results would be something like:
$ ping printer
ping: printer: Name or service not known
or with IP something like:
ping 192.168.192.168
PING 192.168.192.168 (192.168.192.168) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.192.168: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.464 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.192.168: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.287 ms
…
The way this works is usually that the printer sets up a separate AP with a predefined name to witch the laptop/phone etc connects to print or set up the printer within the correct wifi network. The printer mentioned does both from what I can tell so
get it on the network (see manual)
set it up to have a fixed lease or a fixed address
see what the device manager can find.
Restarting has in some cases magicly solved inexplicably unsolvable problems, share your results.
Tip: Does the router have an option to list connected devices and does the printer show up in that list.
Cable connections are the most stable, so yeah that will probably work.
restarting the computer didn’t help…
and i don’t know how to access my router at the moment…
i will just use the cable for now…
if i will decide to try it again wireless, i will try the suggestions all the way…
and thank you for assisting it…
@candlightandskull I’ve always had problems connecting an HP printer wirelessly. My goto solution is to set it up manually. Add the IP address of the printer (don’t remember of the top of my head exactly where) but if you are running hp-setup you should be able to find where to add the IP address.
1st thing, before even doing this, if you have a firewall, is to open the port 9100 for UDP and TCP, also make sure bluetooth is enabled of your machine.
Do that and it should be easy peasy.
I have an HP Color LaserJet MFP-M48. I had troubles printing to it because bothIEEE 802.11b/g, and WiFi Direct were enabled. I chose to disable WiFi direct via the web interface. You might check that, too, when you hook up with the USB cable.