I have an Acer Aspire One laptop with a Linux Linpus processing system. I’m not sure if this is relevant, but the computer has a wireless internet connection to my home network. How do I wirelessly connect my laptop to my Lexmark printer? Another laptop in my house can print wirelessly no problem, but I’ve been told that’s because it’s a Windows operating system. How do I print from my laptop wirelessly, or is that even possible?
September 7th, 2010 on 8:02 pm
yes it is but it is complicated and tricksy
Lexmark are a headache when it comes to letting us have information to write device drivers
I have had the lexmark wireless for 6 month and it is yet to print a page.
You need to go to the wireless configuration window on the laptop and search for devices – it should pick up the printer if it is active.
(I just thought: the printer has to have the wifi card in back as they sell wifi capable printers too!)
If the worse comes to the worst put the print job on a usb memory stick and go to the printer but I would want it to do what it is supposed to do. If the lexmark software doesn’t go on the linux laptop doesn’t mean that it can’t happen.
Check out if Lexmark software can be loaded using any of the ‘wine’ software but ‘CUPS’ should do it.
Next thing is google all the bits of info you have as my friend did this and came up with a guy who had wrote a driver and was willing to give him a copy. (not for a printer) but you will find someone else who has exhausted all possibilities on the forums. The printer model number is important and check it has the wireless adaptor in back