Trouble hooking up wireless printer to winXP VM w/2.0
Posted: 10. Sep 2008, 07:06
I finally gave up trying to get a boot camp partition setup as a virtual machine. So I created a new VM and installed WinXP. Things went ok for the most part. Had a little trouble getting the 2 networks going and USB devices. But once I figured them out it was not bad.
So this evening, I thought I would install the SW for my new HP J6400 wireless printer. The SW install went fine, but when it came time to setup the printer wirelessly, you first have to hook it up with a USB cable. I did this and enabled the usb port correctly. If I open the usb icon on the bottom right of the VM window, it even says that it is for an HP J6400 and says that it is active. But at this point everything comes to a halt. The installation presents an animated diagram showing the printer, and the usb cable and a computer. If things are going correctly, the animation should show "dots" going over the cable to and from the printer. At least that is what happened when hooking it up to a regular computer. But in this case, there was no animation at all. I let it sit like that for a good half hour. But I got nothing. It just sat there. There is an info panel within the animated window saying that instructions of how to connect wirelessly are being sent over to the printer. I also remember when hooking it up to a non-virtual machine that it asked for my wireless passwd at some point within this dialog. But it did not do that either.
I made sure that both the ethernet and Wireless ports were working through to the VM. I initially connected with ethernet and then pulled the ethernet cable and restarted the VM and made sure I could get out the the network via Airport. This all worked.
Has anyone else had any experience trying to hook up a wireless printer in this way? I do have the wireless printer hooked up OK in my boot camp WinXP partition and it works just fine.
So this evening, I thought I would install the SW for my new HP J6400 wireless printer. The SW install went fine, but when it came time to setup the printer wirelessly, you first have to hook it up with a USB cable. I did this and enabled the usb port correctly. If I open the usb icon on the bottom right of the VM window, it even says that it is for an HP J6400 and says that it is active. But at this point everything comes to a halt. The installation presents an animated diagram showing the printer, and the usb cable and a computer. If things are going correctly, the animation should show "dots" going over the cable to and from the printer. At least that is what happened when hooking it up to a regular computer. But in this case, there was no animation at all. I let it sit like that for a good half hour. But I got nothing. It just sat there. There is an info panel within the animated window saying that instructions of how to connect wirelessly are being sent over to the printer. I also remember when hooking it up to a non-virtual machine that it asked for my wireless passwd at some point within this dialog. But it did not do that either.
I made sure that both the ethernet and Wireless ports were working through to the VM. I initially connected with ethernet and then pulled the ethernet cable and restarted the VM and made sure I could get out the the network via Airport. This all worked.
Has anyone else had any experience trying to hook up a wireless printer in this way? I do have the wireless printer hooked up OK in my boot camp WinXP partition and it works just fine.