HP p1606dn network printer is killing me.....

[redgtxdi]

Long story short....

Hp p1606dn printer hooked up to a Linksys psus4 print server hooked up to a Linksys wrv210 router.

Hp instructions say to hit the feed button til it blinks then it'll spit out a config page w the ip address shown. 169.254.89.14 Methinks something's wrong. I hate network printing anyway. This ain't helpin.

What's worse is the wrv210 isn't logging ip addresses anywhere i can find and I can't find the psus4 anywhere on the network to see if IT would show the ip address.

Only thing I haven't done yet is reboot the wrv210 which maybe I should have done but I had to leave work before I killed somebody.

Suggestions? TIA

 

[gsaldivar]

Devices usually get assigned addresses like that by a switch or router when they don't receive a DHCP response.

 

[redgtxdi]

Ya, that's why I'm kinda thinking I'll reboot EVERYTHING when I get back to work in the morning and see if that doesn't kick out a dhcp ip for the printer.

Another frustrating function of networking. Some day........far into the future.......in a land far, far away......I'm hoping that PLUG N PLAY will be redefined to mean exactly that.

Some day......network printing will be.....easy.

Just kidding.

 

[Lifted]

Maybe a silly question, but do you have the printer connected to the print server with a USB cable, or are you merely using the Linksys print server as a switch?

 

[redgtxdi]

Just via Ethernet. It actually replaced an old tried and true 5n that just ain't cuttin it anymore. I was even hoping on the outside chance that the sucker might just print as is since they were both HP printers and occupied the same Ethernet cable but no joy.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Make certain that your DHCP server isn't running out of lease slots for IPs. (Too many devices connected, compared to DHCP lease table count.)

 

[redgtxdi]

Limits are still safe. The router says .5 thru .24 and there are only about 10 possible devices. I don't know why I didn't just reboot router while I was there but oh well. I'll find out in the morning.

 

[Compman55]

Can't you assign a static IP to the printer and leave the DHCP enabled on the router? This way when you reboot, you printer will be alwasy assigned to it? I set my 4650DN to 192.168.2.130 and once the router slotted it, my local ip's just skip it. Not that I would ever have more than 29 devices.

After I did this, the printer always works. When printer was auto DHCP and router was also, it was alwasy conflicting.