On 20 Feb 2007 at 22:35, Alan Galucki wrote:

> I would like to set up my mom's home to enable use of the printer by 2
> computers, one MAC and one PC. Her setup is like this; An Apple
> notebook with wireless, an Apple wireless router connected to DSL
> internet, an Epson printer USB'd into the Apple router which she can
> print from the notebook with, then a Gateway (Windows 98) wireless
> adaptered to access the Apple router for internet use. I want to make
> the printer accessable from the Gateway through the router connection.
> Is this possible? 

  You'll need to install the Win 98 drivers for the printer, and configure 
them to refer to the IP address of the router.  (DHCP should be supplying 
this as the gateway address, so "ipconfig" or "winipcfg" should display it 
if you can't find it any other way.)  That should do it.

>  After installing the wireless adapter to the Gateway, I did have
> internet access through the Apple router. The browser (IE6) functioned
> properly and surfing was no problem. However, when accessing Microsoft
> Windows Update to update her OS on the Gateway, the website read her
> system as being Apple and not Win98. I assume by using the Apple
> router somehow the identifying codes for her system were labeled
> incorrectly and the website shunted me to the Apple site for upgrades. 

  Can you even still get updates for Windows 98?

  It might be an IE6 problem.  The site shouldn't know or care who makes the 
wireless unit, and the fact that it works fine with XP and IE7 confirms 
that.

David Gillett

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