Re: Re (2): Web based configuration of Lexmark XM3150.

Nuno Silva <[email protected]>
Newsgroups alt.comp.periphs.printers
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2025-06-01, [email protected] wrote:

> Hello Marco & all,
>
> In article <[email protected]>, Marco Moock 
> <[email protected]> wrote: 
>> Cat5e is definitely enough - regardless how old. Older types will 
>> most likely work, as the ethernet protocol has a big safety factor.
>
> Tried two or three patch cables and two cross-overs. Connected the 
> printer to the cable router and directly to a laptop.  One laptop has 
> MS Edge which the manual lists as workable.
>
> In all cases at least one indicator light by the 8p8c socket flashed 
> green but the browser timed out.
>
> Youtube videos and Lexmark Web based instructions make this seem 
> trivial. Just give the IP address to the browser.  

How do you know which IP to give?

> If printing has been working by WiFi, must that be disabled?

I'd hope the documentation would state that, if it were the case. But I
know better than to expect documentation to be complete :-)

Maybe *that* (wi-fi networked printing) can be exploited to double-check
the printer IP address? Or is that what you're doing already?

-- 
Nuno Silva
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