From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:30 EST-10EDT,10,1,0,7200,4,1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1883 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Friday 06 November 2009 Number 1883 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Cannot ping my printer. : bokeny at earthlink dot net 2 Re: Cannot ping my printer. : Ed Durrant 3 Re: Cannot ping my printer. : bokeny at earthlink dot net 4 Re: Cannot ping my printer. : bokeny at earthlink dot net **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:00:38 -0500 From: bokeny at earthlink dot net Subject: Cannot ping my printer. First I want to apologize for wondering into your conversations. I been hoping to visit there (and see my sister in Warragul), but I am waiting for the continental drift bring us closer together. I have two instances of eCS Silver Release installed on my ThinkPad T43. From the maintenance partition I can ping the printer that is connected to the computer through a four port router that is connected to a cable modem. My printer is HP Color Laserjet 2550. From my main partition I cannot print nor ping the printer (or the router). What is odd to me, from Firefox I can see both the router and the printer. Also the connection to the internet works well. I normally redirect the print output to SLPR1 which has the correct IP address. I cannot see any difference between the setups on the main and the maintenance partition. The problem must have been in the installation of the operating system. Both installations were on formatted partitions. The problem is not major since I can print from the maintenance partition, and I only print a few pages per week. Still. I would like to know how to fix the mistake I may have made during the installation. Regards, Zoltan -- Zoltan Bokeny bokeny at earthlink dot net Fayetteville, North Carolina I will not shop at "Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. of China"! -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG === **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:19:25 +1100 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: Cannot ping my printer. bokeny at earthlink dot net wrote: > First I want to apologize for wondering into your conversations. I been > hoping to visit there (and see my sister in Warragul), but I am waiting > for the continental drift bring us closer together. > > I have two instances of eCS Silver Release installed on my ThinkPad T43. > >From the maintenance partition I can ping the printer that is connected > to the computer through a four port router that is connected to a cable > modem. My printer is HP Color Laserjet 2550. From my main partition I > cannot print nor ping the printer (or the router). What is odd to me, > from Firefox I can see both the router and the printer. Also the > connection to the internet works well. I normally redirect the print > output to SLPR1 which has the correct IP address. I cannot see any > difference between the setups on the main and the maintenance partition. > The problem must have been in the installation of the operating system. > Both installations were on formatted partitions. > > The problem is not major since I can print from the maintenance > partition, and I only print a few pages per week. Still. I would like > to know how to fix the mistake I may have made during the installation. > > Regards, > Zoltan > > -- > Zoltan Bokeny > bokeny at earthlink dot net > Fayetteville, North Carolina > > I will not shop at "Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. of China"! > > -------------------------------------------------- > > http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG === > > All I can think of is that this sounds like the IP route is being blocked or you are on a different subnet if you can't get to the printer or router via PING. However you say internet access is possible, so unless there is another route to the Internet, this does not make sense! Is there a difference between your IP configuration on your maintenance partition and your main partition? Is one using DHCP and the other using a fixed IP configuration? Are you sure the subnet mask is the same on both? In firefox, do you have a proxy server address configured (this might explain why you can get to the router and printer from firefox but not simply using PING). One last point - are you using a wired or wireless connection from the T43. If you are using WiFi, this could be a GenMAC issue. -- Cheers/2 Ed eComStationAustralia podcast RSS feed http://eComStationAustralia.podbean dot com/feed or iTunes Warpstock Europe at Stralsund, Germany 12-15 November 2009 http://www.warpstock.eu -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG === **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:29:40 -0500 From: bokeny at earthlink dot net Subject: Re: Cannot ping my printer. In <4AF3334D.7060405 at durrant dot mine dot nu>, on 11/06/2009 at 07:19 AM, Ed Durrant said: >All I can think of is that this sounds like the IP route is being >blocked or you are on a different subnet if you can't get to the >printer or router via PING. However you say internet access is >possible, so unless there is another route to the Internet, this does >not make sense! >Is there a difference between your IP configuration on your maintenance > partition and your main partition? Is one using DHCP and the other >using a fixed IP configuration? Are you sure the subnet mask is the >same on both? In firefox, do you have a proxy server address >configured (this might explain why you can get to the router and >printer from firefox but not simply using PING). >One last point - are you using a wired or wireless connection from the >T43. If you are using WiFi, this could be a GenMAC issue. I will have to verify what you asked. The router, printer and the T43 are wired together. -- Zoltan Bokeny bokeny at earthlink dot net Fayetteville, North Carolina I will not shop at "Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. of China"! -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG === **= Email 4 ==========================** Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:23:57 -0500 From: bokeny at earthlink dot net Subject: Re: Cannot ping my printer. In <4AF3334D.7060405 at durrant dot mine dot nu>, on 11/06/2009 at 07:19 AM, Ed Durrant said: >All I can think of is that this sounds like the IP route is being >blocked or you are on a different subnet if you can't get to the >printer or router via PING. However you say internet access is >possible, so unless there is another route to the Internet, this does >not make sense! I only have one way to access the internet. >Is there a difference between your IP configuration on your maintenance > partition and your main partition? Is one using DHCP and the other >using a fixed IP configuration? Are you sure the subnet mask is the >same on both? In firefox, do you have a proxy server address >configured (this might explain why you can get to the router and >printer from firefox but not simply using PING). I booted the partition where the printer is working. I pulled up the printer information in Firefox. Printed out all settings. Rebooted my main partition and compared all printer settings line by line, no difference. We could just lay this to sleep until the final version of eCS 2.0 is released. >One last point - are you using a wired or wireless connection from the >T43. If you are using WiFi, this could be a GenMAC issue. I will have to verify what you asked. The router, printer and the T43 are wired together. -- Zoltan Bokeny bokeny at earthlink dot net Fayetteville, North Carolina I will not shop at "Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. of China"! -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG ===