Changing HP printer Networks
by business_kid from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6QFHW)
Here's my problem:
All printing was done in house via a networked printer on my old ISP's router, with the IP 192.168.178.103. My printer is a HP Laserjet MFP M130nw mono laser. It was with difficulty that I stopped it from running it's own dhcp server.
My new ISP has given me a much faster & slightly cheaper internet, but with a very dumb ZTE router with only basic settings with the network 192.168.0.0/24. There are wired & wireless clients connected. I can't swap the router because it's part of an "all-in-one" package which also has a mobile-type SIM and controls that. DHCP IPs cannot be fixed.
At the moment both wireless networks are running here, but only the printer is on the 192.168.178.0/24 one. I can print because I have the wireless connection configured to use 192.168.178.0, and I'm wired into the new isp on 192.168.0.0/24. So I go offline to print, because the routing table (and resolv.conf) ends in a mess if I do anything else.
Now I'm going to have to return the modem controlling the 192.168.178.0/24 network, but there is the task of switching my 192.168.178.103 IP on the printer for an (as yet unknown) 192.168.0.xxx number and getting on the 192.168.0.0/24 network. I know my printer does a dhcp server, I don't know if the printer does a dhcp client, and whether or not it's dhcp renews it's old lease or gets a new one.
I did have a look online for guides, howtos or wheezes but found nothing. I originally set it up by:
Possible alternatives are: Installing a usb connection to print and set up my box as a print server for mobile phones and a windows box.
Letting it run it's DHCP server on wifi, which grabs precedence over the wifi network :confused:.
All printing was done in house via a networked printer on my old ISP's router, with the IP 192.168.178.103. My printer is a HP Laserjet MFP M130nw mono laser. It was with difficulty that I stopped it from running it's own dhcp server.
My new ISP has given me a much faster & slightly cheaper internet, but with a very dumb ZTE router with only basic settings with the network 192.168.0.0/24. There are wired & wireless clients connected. I can't swap the router because it's part of an "all-in-one" package which also has a mobile-type SIM and controls that. DHCP IPs cannot be fixed.
At the moment both wireless networks are running here, but only the printer is on the 192.168.178.0/24 one. I can print because I have the wireless connection configured to use 192.168.178.0, and I'm wired into the new isp on 192.168.0.0/24. So I go offline to print, because the routing table (and resolv.conf) ends in a mess if I do anything else.
Now I'm going to have to return the modem controlling the 192.168.178.0/24 network, but there is the task of switching my 192.168.178.103 IP on the printer for an (as yet unknown) 192.168.0.xxx number and getting on the 192.168.0.0/24 network. I know my printer does a dhcp server, I don't know if the printer does a dhcp client, and whether or not it's dhcp renews it's old lease or gets a new one.
I did have a look online for guides, howtos or wheezes but found nothing. I originally set it up by:
- hp-setup using a usb connection. I somehow got it connected to the network, which gave it an IP. I then fixed the IP in the router.
- Unplug the usb connection & Run 'hp-setup 192.168.178.103' and fight with it a second time.
Possible alternatives are: Installing a usb connection to print and set up my box as a print server for mobile phones and a windows box.
Letting it run it's DHCP server on wifi, which grabs precedence over the wifi network :confused:.