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Answer» I have an old LPT printer, and a Netgear LPT Mini Print Server. Unfortunately, I am too far away to run an ethernet cable... I COULD buy some or get some from the school, but even then I live in an old extremely-hard-to-wire house.
I do have a laptop that connects via. WiFi, which has an unused Ethernet port.
My question is this: How can I connect the print server device to my LAPTOPS ethernet port, using ICS? Each time I try to do it, it just doesnt work. I'm doing something wrong, but, I dont know what.
OS I am dealing with is WINDOWS 7 (Same as Vista, networking wise) 100MBPS Broadcom Ethernet
NETGEAR Print Server model PS101
When I plug it all in, the LIGHTS blink orange, but, if I disconnect it and plug it in again, they go back green. I still cant print to it.
Any ideas? (Besides: "Stop being so cheap and refill your USB printers cartridges...) It SOUNDS like, because you aren't using a hub or a switch, you need an ethernet cross-over cable. This is different from a standard ethernet cable as pins don't go "straight through" but cross over on pins 1 3 and 6 IIRC - look up "making cross over cable" in google for plenty of instructions
Cheers
SteveThis sounds like its going to be more complicated than I originally hoped for
What if I plugged an old router into my laptops ethernet while ICS is enabled? Or would that have the same problem? Yes if you use it as a hub (i.e. plug the laptop into it AND the other device) then that should be OK
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