Need Help - Ethernet

[ecm28]

I really need help with this. I have windows xp home. I am trying to print to a hp laserjet 5000n through ethernet. The way I need this hooked up is through a hub. The hub I am using is a DLink DE-809TC. Right now I have the printer connected direct to the hub, when i hook up the ethernet from the pc to the hub also there is no communication. I have two macintosh computers hooked as well and they print fine through hub. My lack of knowledge on the pc network is got me in a pinch. I have unplugged both of the macs from the hub and tried just the pc and nothing. I connected the pc direct to the network card on the hp laserjet and nothing. I am confused that the macs will print and the pc does not. I have taken the ethernet cable i am using from the pc and hooked up to the mac to make sure the cable was not bad and it worked.

Thank you in advance

 

[Lundah]

Make sure the print driver on the PC is installed correctly, you will probably need the IP address of the printer (print out a config page from the printer, it should be on there somewhere) when installing the driver.

 

[jkupski]

Not enough information to troubleshoot effectively.

Can the PC talk to the macs at all? If not, either there is a problem with the NIC in the PC, or you have not configured the network settings correctly. If you can talk to the macs, it's probably a print driver configuration problem, as Lundah noted.

If the latter is the case, you would probably find more useful information at the tek-tips HP Printers forum (

http://www.tek-tips.com/threadminder.cfm?pid=697)