Sending a Fax

scoobyonline200

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scoobyonline2000
Here's the situation. I got a new Desktop and I bought a "NETGEAR 54MBPS WIRELESS PCI ADAPTER" for it to use our home network. the only problem is that I cannot print as the only printer we got is in an other room.

Here's the question. How can I send a fax through the wireless PCI adaptor card???
 
scoobyonline200
Here's the situation. I got a new Desktop and I bought a "NETGEAR 54MBPS WIRELESS PCI ADAPTER" for it to use our home network. the only problem is that I cannot print as the only printer we got is in an other room.

Here's the question. How can I send a fax through the wireless PCI adaptor card???
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Place the printer in a shared area, attached to a machine in the Network Area.
 
Famine
Place the printer in a shared area, attached to a machine in the Network Area.
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To extend on this:

Connect the printer/fax to the phone line (to send the fax) and to a desktop on your home network. Make it a shared printer.

Then connect to the shared printer over the wireless network using you PCI adapter.

If the printer does not have a ethernet jack on it, it cannot act as a print server on its own.
 
skip0110
To extend on this:

Connect the printer/fax to the phone line (to send the fax) and to a desktop on your home network. Make it a shared printer.

Then connect to the shared printer over the wireless network using you PCI adapter.

If the printer does not have a ethernet jack on it, it cannot act as a print server on its own.
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dam, so I guess it cant be done on it.
 
I think he does nto want to use another computer as the server.

There are standalone print servers devices availible for under $100.
 
Scooby, the question is not how to get to it over the wireless, it's how to get to it over the network. There's no difference, as the new computer could be connected by cable or by 802.11, it's the same thing, just a different media. The wireless IS the network. (Think of it as 802.11 being an invisible cable.)

It looks like you're assuming the new computer must have its own connection to the printer, which is not necessarily the case. The printer on the other computer must be shared by that computer. On that computer, open Printers in the Control Panel, right-click the printer and go to the sharing tab and set it up. On the new computer with wireless, go to "add a printer" in the Printers screen of the Control Panel, choose network printer, and you can then browse to find the shared printer.

Now: the fax driver might not come through the network; not all of the all-in-one printers can share all their functions. You might have to download the driver package and install it on the new PC to get the fax to work (as opposed to just connecting to the share.) You might also have to share the fax driver separately on the other PC, as well as the print driver. (2 shares, 2 connections, one to print, one to fax.) Then again, you might try that and find it's not possible.
 
Famine
And to what is the printer connected?
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well the printer is not connected to anything. my room mate has a laptop and I have my desktop. Both are connected wirelessly. My room mate when he has to print something, he just connects it to the printer with a USB cable and prints. I kinda figured out what everyone is telling me. A printer wont print without a computer, espcially this one since it only has a regular phone line-in, and not an ethernet...and our router is ethernet only :(. Well Im going to look for a print server, which as one of you said....can go for under a hundred bucks. But I dont really know which is good so does any of you know any good ones???
 

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