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How to connect USB printer to Sagemcom Home Internet Gateway
If I plug my USB printer into the available USB port on the Sagemcom Home Internet Gateway, how do I configure computers to print to it? Is there a port number I should use?
This is not what you want to do, but maybe it will be helpful.
I have a non-Wi-Fi printer (Brother HL-L2300D). It is connected via USB to my Windows desktop computer. I leave that computer on all the time. I can print to that printer from my laptop connected to Wi-Fi even if the desktop computer is asleep. As I recall, all I had to do was enable Sharing in the printer properties.
I already use this same printer via an Apple Airport Extreme connected by Ethernet cable to the Sagemcom gateway. This works properly from two different Windows systems; the printer drivers are already in place.
My goal is to plug the printer into the Sagemcom gateway's open USB port. One reason is for more convenient placement of devices and cables.
Here is how I currently attach the printer to the Airport Extreme at 192.168.12.45:
But when I try plugging the printer into the Sagemcom’s USB port and changing this configuration to the Sagemcom’s IP address, the printer does not respond.
Does the USB port work? Is there a standard way to connect to a printer plugged into the port?
