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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => Routers / COVR => DIR-655 => Topic started by: momcat1 on May 12, 2009, 07:41:09 PM
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OK, so Shareport has been working pretty well for the past 3 months. Must be time to rear its ugly head again. I'm stumped! I go to print 2 pages tonight, and no matter what I did it could no longer find my printer. Drawing from past experience I've had to do this a few times so I uninstalled it rebooted and reinstalled it. No go. Shareport comes up fine, but will not see my printer. I also noticed after the reinstall that Shareport will not see my DIR-655 either. I've now done this unistall/reinstall 3 times now, with a Regclean, and full reboot in between each one, but Shareport doesn't see my router. So I know it's not going to work with my printer til I get past that problem. I checked the router and it still shows USB networking where it's supposed to. I remember a few months back reading some posts and maybe a solution to this, but after an hour of searching couldn't find any of them. Router version is 1.21, Shareport is 1.14. That combo has been working so I don't really want to start fidgeting with router firmware right now. I got it setup so that I no longer get the frequent reboots and I'd like to leave it that way. I also checked for stray Shareport files after the installs and there aren't any. Also searched my registry for strays and removed them. Windows Firewall still has the exceptions I set up for Shareport and they are intact. Computer is running XP SP3. Printer is that Kodak 5500 AIO. I'll prob change that out later in the year when I get sick of replacing printheads, but so far Kodak keeps sending me new ones when I ask for nothing, so I'm at least going to use up the ink cartridges I have. It's a shame Kodak is such a pain about drivers, cause the prints are exceptional.
Any way, what do I need to do so Shareport sees my router? I think that's key here. If I can resolve that part, the rest should go back to work. That's what I get for letting my adult kids use my printer on Mother's Day.
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I am having the same problem on my WinXP computer and I don't know what happened. I did all the steps you said and still no go. IF you downloaded the 1.10 from the website it won't work because you have to have Firmware 1.31 on the router. Well, let me know if you figure this out!
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Magically, after three more reboots, Shareport did pick up my router, so now it's working again.
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Well lucky you! Wish mine would fix it self!