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mixed home LAN, (Ethernet & Wireless)

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by pep-inc 1 view

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I have a desktop PC with wired connection to a wireless gateway,I also have a printer connected to this PC,nether the PC or the printer have a wirless card. I have a new laptop with wireless built in. I would like to set up a LAN so I can print from the laptop via wireless. I know I can do this by sending the data from the laptop to the PC to the printer. What I am not shour of is setting up the Lan. Can I just us my XP wiz on the PC and make a setup CD to install on the Laptop? Or do I set up the wirless part first and then add the PC by using a Flash drive? I know this is very basic but I would like some help.
Thank PEP

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by shady108

what is the ip address of your wireless gateway? im going to assume for this example its 192.168.0.1

set your laptop up as -
192.168.0.2
255.255.255.0

pc -

192.168.0.3
255.255.255.0

that will get u up and running, i was going to suggest you set the printer as 192.168.0.4 and plug it into the wireless gateway by ethernet, but does you rprinter have a network port?

by pep-inc

No the printer does not have a network port. I wanted to print via the PC,ie send the data from the laptop to the pc and then to the printer. Thank You

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