Networked HP Deskjet 5850 on WinXP

[busia12]

Hey everyone,

I have an old HP Deskjet 5850 network-ready printer from years back that is in perfect working condition. All my Windows 7 PC's can print to it over the network without any problem.

I have a windows XP machine that simply will not cooperate and intall the printer. I've tried downloading the driver from HP and going through the wizard and I get an error:

The HP deskjet 5800 series Setup program has encountered a severe error and will now exit

I have tried going through the windows control panel and hitting "add a printer" and manually typing in the printer's IP address... that doesn't work either.

Does anyone have experience getting a networked computer to install in Windows XP?

My Windows XP PC is up-to-date and Windows firewall is off.

Thanks in advance.

 

[gsaldivar]

Are you logged in as admin, or running the HP installer as admin?

 

[busia12]

Are you logged in as admin, or running the HP installer as admin?

Thanks for your reply. Yes I am logged in with admin privs.

Some more information:

After some googling I've found out that although HP advertises this printer as WPA capable, a lot of users are having troubles getting it to connect via that security method.

All of the articles I've found have said that the printer will connect under WEP security with no problems.

Is there any serious danger in reconfiguring my network to WEP instead of WPA/PSK? I'm not nearly as paranoid as the rest of the internetz.

 

[gsaldivar]

Is there any serious danger in reconfiguring my network to WEP instead of WPA/PSK? I'm not nearly as paranoid as the rest of the internetz.

I wouldn't trust my own network to WEP, it's trivial (10 minutes) for any moderately knowledgeable person to bypass that encryption.

Is it possible to run an ethernet cable from your router to the printer? That way all computers connected to the router (wired or wireless) would see the printer as a networked device rather than each computer trying to print directly to it by wifi.

This is also recommended since some HP printers are only able to accept print jobs by either wireless OR wired networks, not both at the same time.