HP Laserjet P1102w driver-plugin

[O. Sinclair]

On 10/11/2011 22:23, Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> Am 09.11.2011 20:51, schrieb Jerry Lapham:
>> On Wednesday, November 09, 2011 11:50:06 AM Bruce Marshall wrote:
>>
>>> On Wednesday, November 09, 2011 02:14:57 AM Jerry Lapham wrote:
>>>> I have a new HP Laserjet P1102w and though it works fine with a USB
>>>> cable, I'm having trouble getting it to work wireless. When I try to
>>>> download and install the driver-plugin with HPLIP, I get "Plug-in
>>>> install failed."
>>>>
>>>> The alternative is to "select and install an existing local copy..."
>>>> Since the printer works with USB, do I already have one? If so, where
>>>> and what is the file name? If not, does anyone here have it?
>>>>
>>>> -Jerry
>>>
>>> You sure you need a driver???
>>
>> Apparently. I have it set up as a USB printer and that works. It also
>> appears as a printer option when I go to print something and it does
>> work with
>> the USB cable connected.
>>
>> What I'm trying to do is set it up also as a wireless printer. (The
>> P1102w
>> does not have an ethernet interface.) It's when I try to install it as a
>> wireless printer that I need the proprietary driver-plugin.
>>
>> After several email exchanges with HP support in which they kept
>> referring me
>> to the web site with HPLIP (which I already have), they gave up and
>> told me
>> they only support Windows.
>>
>> The question is: What does the driver-plugin do? It doesn't seem to
>> enable
>> the wireless connection; my router can see the printer as an attached
>> device.
>> But if it's just a print driver, I would think I already have it for
>> the USB
>> printer. But if so, where is it and what's its name?
>>
>> -Jerry
>> =============================================
>> Jerry Lapham
>> Monroe, OH 45050
>> rjlapham at gmail.com
>> =============================================
>> Dyslexic atheists don't believe in Dog.
>>
> Hi,
>
> according to this,
> http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/laserjet/hp_laserjet_professional_p_1102w.html#note8
>
>
> the printer is just supported with usb.
>

We have this printer in our office and the only way I can use it 
wireless is by first setting it up wireless on a Windows machine and 
then connect to that "network printer".