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Old 05-19-2015, 07:28 AM   #608
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Originally Posted by rcentros View Post
These are the kind of things that drive me nuts on Windows. I have a network printer/scanner and have been using it for a couple years on WiFi. Since the printer is now near my main router I figured I would just connect it via an Ethernet cable and disable WiFi. I kept the same static IP address, just changed how it connected to the router from WiFi to Ethernet. I tested it on my Linux Mint computer -- no issues. Job done ... or so I thought. Windows 7 didn't like it and wouldn't print. Why? I have NO idea. So I tried changing the port in the printer driver -- two or three times. Even though the IP address was right, the printer would not work? I finally downloaded the printer driver and reloaded the whole thing again ... which (since Windows' printers are huge for some reason) took about 45 minutes. Then I had to re-download the bundled OCR software (PaperPort) because changing the printer driver somehow confused that software. I'm just getting too old for this crap. That's why I like the straight forward simplicity of Linux. I'm trying to get my kids to work on the Windows computers -- I don't need the aggravation.
Yeah...sounds like you're doing it wrong. Why in the world would you re-download the driver? I've done exactly what you're talking about many times, and if anything needed to be done besides just changing the properties of the port, it would be just creating a new instance of the device using the same downloaded driver.

This is what drives me crazy with these threads--people who don't know how to use Windows complaining about how horrible it is, while implying that they are somehow better than the people who don't know how to use Linux.

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