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Netgear Highthawk R8000 and wired HP printer
I have an HP Laserjet 404dn connected via CAT5 cable to the router. Light is on indicating the router sees printer. The printer also appears in the list of attached devices under Access Control, but not under the list of Attached Devices in the main menu. The printer was accessible and working up until a about a month ago. I run both Fedora and Kubuntu, if that makes a difference. However, since the "Attached Devices" and "Access Control" lists of devices differ, I believe this is a router problem.
Solved, and even less Draconian than I was expecting. I restarted the IP, then reset the router to assign the printer a fixed IP. Then restarted the router, but, no soap. So, I reset the router to assign the printer an automatic IP, retarted and again no luck. But, I cycled through those steps twice more, and third time was the charm. What ever had become a problem ceased to be. In any case thanks for the suggestion. I am still very curious about what might cause a sticky shift like that.
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Duster1 wrote:I have an HP Laserjet 404dn connected via CAT5 cable to the router. Light is on indicating the router sees printer. The printer also appears in the list of attached devices under Access Control, but not under the list of Attached Devices in the main menu. The printer was accessible and working up until a about a month ago. I run both Fedora and Kubuntu, if that makes a difference. However, since the "Attached Devices" and "Access Control" lists of devices differ, I believe this is a router problem.
Do you have Access Control on your router enabled?
Highly unlikely your issue is a router problem. Suggest you look toward the operating systems you are running on your computer.
Kitsap wrote:
Highly unlikely your issue is a router problem. Suggest you look toward the operating systems you are running on your computer.
Indeed. The usual advice is to track down the printer connection utility from whoever made it.
The reason that I addressed the Netgear community is because there is a definable issue with the router.
The Router offers TWO lists. One is the connected devices the router allows other device on the network to see. The other list all the devices the router says are connected. One list does not list the printer - former, the other does. That is, the router explicitly is limiting the visibilty of the printer to precisely no one but the router it self. So, there is an issue within the router, possibly a setting that changed somehow (me, someone I let print, ?). My question is what might that setting be? I can wire the printer directly to the computer and things would be fine - for me. Other users would have a problem. I don't let my computer act as a print server.
