[GTALUG] HP printers [Request for printer recommendations]

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: o1bigtenor <o1bigtenor at gmail.com>
| To: GTALUG Talk <talk at gtalug.org>
| Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 15:04:44 -0500
| Subject: Re: [GTALUG] HP printers [Request for printer recommendations]
| Reply-To: GTALUG Talk <talk at gtalug.org>
| 
| On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 7:25 AM, Stewart C. Russell <scruss at gmail.com> wrote:
| 
| > Hi Dee:

| > Hmm, hadn't realized you were still stuck.

I hadn't either.  This has been a month or two!

| > (You can ping your printer, yes? I mean, if it's not even seen on the
| > network, you have to address this first.

Dee: you didn't answer this question.  It is important: all the layers
have to work, starting from the bottom, networking.

The specifications don't even mention networking but the W at the end
of the name indicates 802.11b/g/n support.

If this is so difficult, we ought to try one step at a time, and
networking is clearly the first step.

| Tried Brother email support. For Linux is only to point you to the tools
| and then its your baby and the number of people that they have for Linux
| support is very small so its also very very slow to get what help does
| exist.

With luck, you probably won't need support from them.

| Also don't really have a formal network set up at present.

I don't know what that means.

| I have been
| recommended to use set up a ftp server and clients but my main box is also
| out for R n R as I seem to have let out some magic smoke from one of the
| hard drives.
| 
| This means that any changes are when I get my system back but will try
| then.

OK.  In other words, we should wait until then before bombarding you
with suggestions.

I would expect that you have a LAN and have other computer(s) still
functioning.  Perhaps not in Linux.