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?
let me know please.
thank you
Make absolutely sure the printer’s wireless connection is functional. It needs the wireless security key (password) and so on.
I have no experience with HP and wireless, however this doesn’t look right.
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:
cool. i will try soon
the link is too complicated for me at the moment.
anyway it didn’t listed much with sudo arp-scan -l
only 3 devices found. even tho i have more than that…
i’ve also tried to restart my router and printer… perhaps restarting manjaro might help with it?
in the worst case i will bring a usb cable tomorrow.
What are the results? (please do not post screenshots)
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
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.
Step one should be to connect your printer to your wireless router.
You can check your success by looking at the wireless router’s configuration page. Your printer should appear there (with name and IP).
After that works, you can continue in Manjaro.
I remember when I was installing my HP printer I need to start a service to be able to set it up over wi-fi:
sudo systemctl enable --now avahi-daemon.service
If you want to try this approach, you can check if you already have this service enabled and running with
systemctl status avahi-daemon.service
at the end i connected it with a usb cable…
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 both IEEE 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.