Forum Discussion
Wireless 5G Gateway - No IP Address for Device
I have an old Xerox Phaser printer that I want to connect to our new wireless 5G network. The printer does not have wireless card, so I bought an IOGear Ethernet-2-WiFi universal adapter. I set it up on the 192.168.12.* subnet. The adapter says it is connected to the new wireless network. The T-Mobile app shows the device with a matching MAC address as connected, but the TCP/IP address is blank. If I run an IP range scan and try all the live addresses, I can’t get the device interface (I’m also seeing pings back from devices that are not on the . It’s as if DHCP isn’t working.
Any ideas?
Problem solved - seems like some DHCP protocol issue - I assigned the printer I was connecting to with the IOGear to a static IP and it works.
Assuming you are on a Windows network, the IOGear manual on page 9-10, shows hot to make sure younger the IP address (which it sounds like you have). I would double-check my settings to make sure you can ping the IP address. If you can ping your IP address range and see all devices but the IOGear unit/printer, double check the connections (maybe lose).
Retracing your steps is always a good start to troubleshooting.
I hope this helps.
(I’m also seeing pings back from devices that are not on the WLAN like Reply from 192.168.12.113: Destination host unreachable.)
