@kortmann wrote:
Okay, I finally established a wireless connection using a temporary USB connection but if somehow disabled the encryption on my Wi-Fi network. I'm afraid to turn encryption back on for fear I will lose connection to the printer. Are you familiar with anything like this?
I recall having to do something similar with the USB cable to obtain the MAC address of the printer. Once I had that, i was able to punch it into the router, so that the printer would always be assigned a fixed address wirelessly, I had to disable wireless router security to get the printer initially configured, and then bring it back up.
NOTE, the wireless MAC address turned out to be different from the hardwired MAC address. My computer has two PIXMA printers configured, one for each type of connection, wireless or copper.
The printer would auto-power down when connected wirelessly, and would not wake back up. In the end, I would up uisng a 50 foot Cat-5e cable I had laying around, and connected the printer to the router that way.. Yeah, it is not how I had intended to be able to use the printer, but you know what, though, data transfers to the printer MUCH FASTER over a network cable than it does wirelessly. Now that the printer is connected through a cable, i could re-enable all of my wireless security.
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