I have W7 on my laptop and recently bought a new photo printer which will connect wirelessly to the network. It is a Canon CP900 with wireless and USB connectivity and is supported for wireless on W7 SP1 (which is installed), also supports printing from my Android phone wirelessly using a Canon app. Now having setup the printer to connect to my wireless AP I was able to connect to it and print from my phone. Next was to try to install it on the W7 laptop. PC support for wireless is only using W7 or Mac, XP only supports USB connection.
Running the installer it starts the driver installation process and asks whether I am using a wireless connection, after confirming it is wireless it the does absolutely nothing, the driver install never ends and the printer does not appear as one of my available printer devices. I have also tried an alternate copy of the driver install from the Canon website but this behaves the same way.
Looking at the laptop I opened the explorer and displayed the Network which shows connected devices, low and behold it shows the CP900 and selecting its properties it correctly displays the device and its IP address. I can also ping the printer OK. Looking into the running services on the laptop the wireless zero config service to discover wireless devices is running.
I have opened a report with Canon but so far only got a response from level1 support going through their check list and now the report has been passed to level 2 support who have not yet replied.
Has anyone got any more ideas about things I might have missed here?
Stuart