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trying to get laptop to recognize printer

Dec 30, 2004 4:32AM PST

I set up a wireless network with Linksys wrt54gs for two laptops. Everything works except I can't get through the add printer wizard so the laptops will recognize my HP Photosmart 7660 printer. Please help.

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what have you tried?
Dec 30, 2004 6:43AM PST

When I set up my wireless network (all three computers use XP), I had the printer connected to and installed on the desktop. After I complete the networking and the computers saw each other, I added the printer to the two wireless notebooks. The printer and desktop were both on, I went to "my network places", clicked on add a printer, a wizard appeared and did the work. All I had to do was select the desktop computer then the printer as the source when asked. The wizard installed the necessary software and bingo, the printer was installed. I'm sure there are other ways to do this but, I found this to be easy.

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Networking a printer info.
Dec 31, 2004 11:46PM PST