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Comment on It Won’t Print!: Or, the HP LaserJet P1102w and Me by surferblue

surferblue — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:07:09 +0000

Manuela, The method for setting the channel on your wireless access point will vary a bit depending on the manufacturer and model of the device. The method for accessing it may vary as well. If you’re not sure how to start, try calling the tech support group for your Internet service provider and ask them how to change the channel. They SHOULD be able to tell you. If they can’t or if you want to try to figure it out for yourself, look at your wireless access point (it may be built into your modem/router) and figure out the manufacturer and model. For example, my service provider is AT&T, and I currently have their Motoroa NVG 510 modem. Ron Berman’s page has a link to the manual for the NVG510. His page shows that to access my modem, I enter this address in my browser: 192.168.1.254. The manual (page # 35) shows that I can change the channel via a drop-down box on the wireless configuration page. Again, you’ll have to find a manual for your particular wireless access point. Or, if you already know how to get into the configuration section, you may be able to find it on your own. Good luck!

Comment on It Won’t Print!: Or, the HP LaserJet P1102w and Me by Manuela

Manuela — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 18:55:03 +0000

Hi
I think I might have the same problem but I don’t know how to change the wireless access point from whatever it is now to 11.
I’ve been fighting with this printer for over a week now it works for 5 minutes and then I have to spend my whole day searching what’s wrong now.

Comment on It Won’t Print!: Or, the HP LaserJet P1102w and Me by surferblue

surferblue — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 20:01:04 +0000

Talib – Sorry for the delay! The notification of your comment wound up in my spam filter, so I didn’t know about your post! Hopefully you’ve gotten your problem resolved by now.

If not . . . Here are a few things to try:

1) Make sure that the correct driver for your printer model was installed.
2) From your description it sounds like the job is getting hung in the print queue on your computer. If that’s the case, it sounds like the job may not even be making it to the printer. If you have a spare USB cable lying around, I would give that a try.
3) I would also try accessing the printer through its web interface in case it is working on a wireless network. There is some information in the manual at http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c01695231.pdf. That may give you a clue about what’s going on.

As for the wireless networking part, your computer doesn’t have to be wireless in order to use the printer as a wireless device. If you have a wireless network in this location, the printer can use it. Even if your computer is using a wired connection, it’s still possible to print to it.

Good luck, and I hope you get it sorted out!

Comment on It Won’t Print!: Or, the HP LaserJet P1102w and Me by Talib

Talib — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:22:08 +0000

I just bought a P1102, which doesn’t print at all, I’m trying to connect via USB cable, as I don’t think my PC supports wireless. Every time when stalling the driver (which according to their blurb should be working without driver instal) it asks to connect the printer, which is clearly connected as you get the USB sound when plugging it in. The power works fine too. I tried manual install through Windows (XP), which got it to recognise the printer at last, but it doesn’t print and comes up with a “print Error” and the print job just lingers in the print que.

Any ideas?

Comment on It Won’t Print!: Or, the HP LaserJet P1102w and Me by bstillred

bstillred — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 04:38:53 +0000

This worked perfectly for me!!! Thank you so much!

Comment on It Won’t Print!: Or, the HP LaserJet P1102w and Me by surferblue

surferblue — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 02:11:45 +0000

I’m glad that was helpful to you. It was a real hair-puller for me too until I finally ran across that one little tip!

Comment on It Won’t Print!: Or, the HP LaserJet P1102w and Me by pacodublin

pacodublin — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 15:10:19 +0000

Thank you, this tip was a life saver. Two days trying to work out why my printer wouldn’t print.
Pacodublin

Comment on Goodbye, Location-Based Gaming by surferblue

surferblue — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:01:27 +0000

Just HAD to pull me out of retirement, didn’t you? I checked out the website and viewed the Tour and Demo videos. At the most basic level it seems like a visual- and map-based version of geocaching. Rather than navigating to coordinates, you navigate to locations on the map. Finding and dropping treasures is interesting, but Gowalla already had that feature.

It looks like this one is just getting off the ground and hasn’t really picked up steam in my area yet. There are no users at all within 50 miles of me. I found it interesting that the app let me get treasures that were over 5 miles away from my current location. Unfortunately, the app has already crashed three times within just a few minutes of use, so I probably won’t spend a lot of time with it.

Comment on Goodbye, Location-Based Gaming by Megha

Megha — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:17:33 +0000

Have you tried GeoSocials yet? It addresses at least three out of five issues that crops up in your post, if you use it the way the app developer intended it. If you’re up for one more try – http://www.geosocials.com