Re: Help Getting Wireless Printet Connection

Pook · ‎03-20-2010

Thanks I didn't know what the WPS button was but it still does the same thing. I don't know what to do now.

glb613 · ‎03-09-2010

If you have a Linksys router, here are some instructions.

wireless connection

Pook · ‎03-20-2010

@chickenbutt, Thanks for the reply but my

wps button is solid and can't light up to blink.

glb613 · ‎03-09-2010

@Pook wrote:
@chickenbutt, Thanks for the reply but my
wps button is solid and can't light up to blink.

Why not try connecting your printer to the wireless network by using the menu on the printer? I have a Canon printer, did it that way and it's easy. Look on the side or bottom of your router for the name and security number. When prompted to enter the information, enter it and it will connect. You really are making this process more difficult than it needs to be.

Nuttmeg · ‎03-09-2010

@Pook wrote:
@chickenbutt, Thanks for the reply but my
wps button is solid and can't light up to blink.

Does your Wireless Router support windows 10?
Please disconnect your printer, turn the computer off, and start install again.

You should go to Canon Printer support forum. http://community.usa.canon.com/t5/Canon-Forum/ct-p/Canon_Forum

You may want to do a search inside the forum.

chickenbutt · ‎03-09-2010

Oh boy. The WPS button WILL blink after you are holding it down for a couple of seconds but you also need to hold it down in a way that you can see it blink. Normally, it isn't lit up at all, at least on the last few routers I have had. It will blink after you've held it down for a couple of seconds.

If the printer is capable of doing it this way, it is the easiest, as it takes seconds and you have to do practically nothing. Might have to restart the computer. Sometimes I do. Then I see it installed and am able to print a test page.

Otherwise, as is the case with my other Canon (an older one), I just have to re-install it each time I change my network. There are instructions on the Canon website and they are super easy to follow. These links have been provided. I usually just Google the brand and model # of my printer and 'installation' or something like that and it comes right up.

Takes like two minutes total to do the install. I keep a cable in the drawer under that printer because one of the instructions is to plug it in. That doesn't mean you always have to plug it in. That is for the sole purpose of getting it installed.

During the installation it will ask you if you are doing the installation for the purpose of making it wireless and you choose that.

Follow the directions through. It is very easy and not at all confusing. Then you unplug the printer from the computer, when it tells you to, and you should be good. You may have to restart your computer, but it's never any more involved than that.

chickenbutt · ‎03-09-2010

Hey Pook! I hope you got this thing going. I didn't want to sound intolerant the other day. I just felt frustrated. I wish I could have just gone there and helped you get it done and you could learn how. Trust me, I remember when I had the same exact type of frustrations.

I have two Canon printers. One of them has the screen (it's a print/copy/scan/fax machine) and I can just pair it up to the router as described here.

My other, slightly older Canon is just a print/copy/scan machine and doesn't have the ability to do that. So I have to just re-install it each time as I described above with plugging it into the computer and going through the instructions, then unplug it and it's wirelessly 'connected'.

Every time I change my network I've had to go through this with that printer and it is a bit of a pain, especially since it takes like 5 seconds to do the other one through WPS. But I finally wrote it all down so because i would forget each time what I did last time.