I have a home tower with Windows 2000 Pro and a laptop with Windows XP which uses a Linksys wireless router. Everything worked fine until I recently had to scrub my laptop’s hard drive. Now the printer doesn’t work when I attempt to print from the laptop. It still works with the tower. I installed the printer driver from HP’s website and it doesn’t work. There are two possible problems I see. When I use the Install Wizard to install the printer driver, it says it is looking for the printer at LPT1 and can’t find it but I told the wizard that the printer is not connected directly to the laptop. It offers me several other ports to look for the printer. The other possibility is that the tower might not be seeing the laptop as part of the network. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Sean Carroll
Corporate Fraud Investigator
