[Bulk] WiFi-printers Error: ''no DHCPOFFERS received''
Eberhard Roloff
tuxebi at gmx.de
Tue Jan 13 18:56:51 UTC 2009
Ulrich GrĂ¼n wrote:
>
> Nothing is wired
ok
(and everything is weird, but that is another thing).
No, imho wireless is weird, I use it only, when nothing else works. ;-))
> My Printer has a WiFi interface and my laptop is equipped with the
> Linksys Wireless-G USB network adapter with >>RangeBooster<< (yes!)
Maybe you can take your laptop and visit a friend that uses a wireless
router, just to make sure that your wireless USB adaptor works ok.
> My printer has a fixed IP address. RutilT finds the Printer (the
> printer then prints some network status, which looks exactly as with
> WinXP), but somehow the DHCP part doesn't work.
sure, since from what you say (more precisely from what I understood,)
there is no dhcp server within your network.
>
> No router. My Desktop is connected via LAN,
with LAN, you mean wired? To what is your Desktop connected?
the laptop and the printer
> have to communicate to each other apart from the LAN (which they
> refuse until now).
For my rather limited knowledge, using printer and laptop like this
(i.e. without an accesspoint or a wireless router) means, that you are
trying to build up an "adhoc"wireless network.
Independantly of whether this might work (google will most probably help
you with this, I personally never did it and I do not know whether your
printer supports this network mode), I would strongly suggest to
consider getting an access point or the like in order to build up a
"real" network.
If you do not want to invest into an accesspoint/wireless router, you
might consider converting your existing desktop into a wireless
accesspoint to which you then connect your laptop and your printer,
respectively.
>
> I have no pasword protection at this moment (it apparently is not a
> password problem).
> It seems very much to be a DHCP problem, since I receive a lot of
> DHCPREQUEST, DHCPDISCOVER and No DHCPOFFERS Received. Is there a way
> to not need DHCP but use an IP address?
sure there is. Ex have a look here
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/setting-up-an-network-interfaces-file/
you will most probably need to adjust your settings to what you actually
have, especially in regard to the interface name.
cheers
Eberhard
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