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I’ve been hearing over the last few days about the Panorama TV show on the BBC – where some ‘experts’ deduced that wifi was bad for us(tm).

Rather than ramble on and give the programme more exposure I’ll simply say this: It’s ironic that the BBC chose to unscientifically attack wifi (2.4ghz) and mobile phones (0.9 and 1.8ghz) – when their own TV channels transmit at similar types of frequencies (700Mhz) and with far greater signal strengths.

Surely the BBC themselves are proof enough that non-ionising radiation is not harmful to the general public?

I bought a wireless print server from aria a few weeks ago – it was only about £16 — you can’t really go wrong at that price (or so I thought!). Aria reckons that it’s a debadged version of a dynamode print server. This sounds like good info at first – except when you browse dynamode’s website you realise that there is no info for that version either!!

Anyway – because I have a HP laserjet – I couldn’t link the thing up straight away due to the half-centronics port HP use – so I had to go out and buy another cable to sort that out. Whilst waiting for delivery of the cables, as is typical, the manual and CD’s got misplaced: I was left with just the unit and the psu.

Don’t worry, I thought, just plug it in and DHCP will sort it all out for you. Nope! First thing was that because I have multiple AP’s it latched onto the wrong one. Then I couldn’t for the life of me figure out the default IP.

So I thought I’d throw some info up onto the web – so if some other poor soul is tracking this info down then it’s here!

The IP, by default, is 192.168.5.1.

Shove it in diag mode (flick the switch) and you can link directly up to it via ad-hoc, at which point you can login to the web config page and alter the settings, tell it which AP to connect to etc.

Pressing the reset button appears to set everything back to defaults – it also appears to print a page of info out (minus the IP tho!).

Once you’ve got it on your network, and all connected up, it’s not exactly clear where you go from there.

There are various ways to link it up to your PC, but I’ve found this way the best:

Add Printer.
Local Printer.
Create a new port
Standard TCP/IP port
Then type the fixed IP in. (You did tell the web config for a fixed IP didn’t you?).
Then click Custom > Settings.
Then set LPR
The queue name is 631.
(And you can enable SNMP if you wish).
Then OK all out of that, and it should end asking if you want a test page.

And thats about it. It took me about 3+ hours to figure all that out – I had to dig out ethereal to sniff the IP from the ad-hoc connection.

I thought we’d got past the days of random hardware with ZERO info on the web! Seems not. <sighs>

Device ID is HUFWP03001

Looks like Lost might end in the next two seasons! Which is brilliant really.

I do hope that the way they work it is that Lost will resolve in it’s current form IN TWO SERIES. But after that they have 1/2/3 series following the lives of the lost survivors back at home, ie. Hurley, the millionaire back at home with sawyer swimming in his pool.

There are a lot of possibilities for the series AFTER they have been rescued etc. (unless they’re dead… – in which case maybes they can become ghosts?).