When I found the price and availability of the toner cartridges of my wired laser printer were horrendous, I decided to step up to a wireless printer with longer-lasting cartridges. (hey, BenBradley, want another printer? 
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It's a Brother HL-2170W, and I'm trying to get it to work on my wireless network (ThinkPad running Windows XP with Intel Wireless WiFi Link4965AGN--whatever that means--and Linksys WRT300N router). So far I've gone through tech support at Cisco, who determines that my router is fine and should be communicating, and the techies at Brother, who say that it is a problem with the wireless in my computer.
I have no problem getting online wirelessly, but it will not communicate with the printer. I go to print and just get an error; it doesn't say what kind of error. I have installed, uninstalled, reinstalled FOUR times now, and ended up doing the wired install because I had to print my tax forms. After getting my printing done, I used the CD that came with the printer to configure the wireless settings (again) and even went so far as to install the BRAdmin software so I could set the boot method at static and assign the IP, Subnet Mask and Gateway for my network, and it still won't communicate.
I have a service call out to the folks at Lenovo about my internal wireless whatever, but my warrenty doesn't cover weekend service, so I have to wait until Monday. Anybody here have an idea of what could be wrong?
I really want to be able to print from my laptop without hauling it physically to the printer. That was kinda the point of the purchase.
)It's a Brother HL-2170W, and I'm trying to get it to work on my wireless network (ThinkPad running Windows XP with Intel Wireless WiFi Link4965AGN--whatever that means--and Linksys WRT300N router). So far I've gone through tech support at Cisco, who determines that my router is fine and should be communicating, and the techies at Brother, who say that it is a problem with the wireless in my computer.
I have no problem getting online wirelessly, but it will not communicate with the printer. I go to print and just get an error; it doesn't say what kind of error. I have installed, uninstalled, reinstalled FOUR times now, and ended up doing the wired install because I had to print my tax forms. After getting my printing done, I used the CD that came with the printer to configure the wireless settings (again) and even went so far as to install the BRAdmin software so I could set the boot method at static and assign the IP, Subnet Mask and Gateway for my network, and it still won't communicate.
I have a service call out to the folks at Lenovo about my internal wireless whatever, but my warrenty doesn't cover weekend service, so I have to wait until Monday. Anybody here have an idea of what could be wrong?
I really want to be able to print from my laptop without hauling it physically to the printer. That was kinda the point of the purchase.
