J***@nospam.invalid
2011-09-27 02:29:52 UTC
I have a mixed G and N home wlan network on which I have 2 W 7 laptops
connected. One of these is a new laptop to replace an old XP laptop that
was connected to an old but working fine laser printer using a printer
parallel port.
My problem:
none of the new laptops have a printer parallel port. So I now have no
way to connect my printer which only has a parallel connection.
I was thinking of keeping the old XP laptop with its connected printer
as a printer server on the network so we can still access the printer
over the home network.
Questions:
1. Can the XP laptop (uses G wireless card) which I plan to put into a
sleep state be set to "wake up" from the sleep state when it receives a
print job for its printer? Also to wake up when it receives Windows updates.
2. How?
3. Is there another way to connect this parallel port printer to the
network? How?
Thanks, Jeff
connected. One of these is a new laptop to replace an old XP laptop that
was connected to an old but working fine laser printer using a printer
parallel port.
My problem:
none of the new laptops have a printer parallel port. So I now have no
way to connect my printer which only has a parallel connection.
I was thinking of keeping the old XP laptop with its connected printer
as a printer server on the network so we can still access the printer
over the home network.
Questions:
1. Can the XP laptop (uses G wireless card) which I plan to put into a
sleep state be set to "wake up" from the sleep state when it receives a
print job for its printer? Also to wake up when it receives Windows updates.
2. How?
3. Is there another way to connect this parallel port printer to the
network? How?
Thanks, Jeff