HP Wireless Printing Upgrade Kit

Does the device get an IP address?

We haven't tested this configuration, although it should work. If the wifi device is getting an ip address, and you can print a test page to get the ip address, you should be able to configure the printer using the hp-setup and select network, then manually put in the ip address (or it may auto detect th printer).

Also try running hp-probe from the command line and see if it detects the printer ip.

Aaron

Thanks for your help :)

Normally, this device only works with the delivered wlan-usb-stick, and with a separate IP-address (192.168.173.1), which is not visible to my wlan-router. I had to start Windows :(( and start an advanced options dialogue in the driver to give the device a public visible IP, too, which is now 192.168.1.64 . Now i can ping the device, but hp-probe (-bnet) and also hp-setup don't find the device. Any ideas? And how can i print a test page to get the ip address, as you said?

Holger

If you can ping the printer, run:

snmpwalk -Os -c public -v 1 ip.address.of.printer 1.3.6.1.4.1.11.2.3.9.1.1.7.0

Where ip.address.of.printer would be the printer ip address.

and post the output. After doing some reading about the HP Wireless Printing Upgrade Kit I'm not 100% sure it will work. We'll know more information once I can look at the snmpwalk output.

As for the IP address I as thinking there was a button you could press and it would print it out but apparently not. My mistake!

Aaron

Hello Aaron,

thank you so much for your unbelievably fast answer! In fact, i already went to bed, but i wouldn't if i had known how fast you are :)
ok, back from work now, and trying to do what you said, but imho the device seems not to work now :(

kls@MD98200:~$ snmpwalk -Os -c public -v 1 192.168.1.64 1.3.6.1.4.1.11.2.3.9.1.1.7.0
Timeout: No Response from 192.168.1.64
kls@MD98200:~$ snmpwalk -Os -c public -v 1 192.168.1.64
Timeout: No Response from 192.168.1.64
kls@MD98200:~$ sudo snmpwalk -Os -c public -v 1 192.168.1.64 1.3.6.1.4.1.11.2.3.9.1.1.7.0
Timeout: No Response from 192.168.1.64
kls@MD98200:~$ ping 192.168.1.64
PING 192.168.1.64 (192.168.1.64) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.1.64: icmp_seq=1 ttl=30 time=3.34 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.64: icmp_seq=2 ttl=30 time=2.03 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.64: icmp_seq=3 ttl=30 time=2.07 ms

--- 192.168.1.64 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2002ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 2.032/2.482/3.343/0.610 ms
kls@MD98200:~$

Any more ideas ? Thanks in advance, and you don't have to hurry this time, i have to leave the house, and it will last some time to come back to this thread, as i am not here tomorrow. (It's the computer and printer of a neighbour). Lots of thanks again,
yours Holger

Holger,

Sorry for the delay.

Unfortunately if snmpwalk isn't getting a response it means for some reason or another the wireless printing kit isn't returning the information that hplip needs to configure and work with the printer.

I'll try and get a hold of the wireless network kit and try to reproduce. Although I haven't seen these physically so it may be awhile before I can get ahold of one, if I ever can.

Sorry I couldn't help more!

Aaron

i have the same problem with the hp wireless upgrade printing kit and a hp deskjet f4180 all in one.
need some help, please...

Hi Aaron,

I can confirm Holgers experience:

jeroenv@jeroenv-desktop:~$ snmpwalk -Os -c public -v 1 10.0.0.161 1.3.6.1.4.1.11.2.3.9.1.1.7.0
Timeout: No Response from 10.0.0.161
jeroenv@jeroenv-desktop:~$ ping 10.0.0.161
PING 10.0.0.161 (10.0.0.161) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 10.0.0.161: icmp_seq=1 ttl=30 time=1.55 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.0.161: icmp_seq=2 ttl=30 time=1.87 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.0.161: icmp_seq=3 ttl=30 time=3.80 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.0.161: icmp_seq=4 ttl=30 time=1.54 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.0.161: icmp_seq=5 ttl=30 time=1.53 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.0.161: icmp_seq=6 ttl=30 time=1.58 ms
^C
--- 10.0.0.161 ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 6 received, 0% packet loss, time 5021ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.534/1.984/3.808/0.824 ms

Strange box: it indeed listens at ports 34447 and 34448, (see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=516868) but when configuring these ports in the printer-properties section it just doesn 't work, a print job is accepted, and you will see the activity LED at the wireless box flashing but that 's all.

I hope this is of use for you.
Thanks.