Disable wireless broadcasting - HP Laserjet p1102w

[pandrews01]

I have been tasked with disabling the wireless on our HP Laserjet p1102w printers. Following the instructions in the manual I have disabled the wireless, but it continues to broadcast.

Printing the Configuration page verifies the Wireless Status = Disabled.

Any idea what I can do to disable the printers from broadcasting completely?

[TwinsXT]

What do you mean "but it continues to broadcast."? Do you mean the printer wireless blue light keep blinking?

The simple way to disable the wireless on P1102w is to hold the wireless button for more than 5 seconds, and the blue light will go off. and wireless broadcasting is disabled. Please try it.

Hope it helps.

[pandrews01]

I have disabled the wireless by holding down the button for 5 seconds, and printed the configuration page to verify it was disabled. However, whenever a laptop is near it still picks up the wireless signal coming from the printers.

I would like to stop it from broadcasting completely.

[pandrews01]

Issue was resolved by HP Chat support. Had to shut the printer down, hold the wireless and cancel buttons together and power the printer back on. Wait for all the lights to flash together and then let the buttons go.

Thanks for trying though!

[BobDR]

The steps above did not work for me.  I did however resolve the issue by installing the firmware update.  Once installed, holding the wireless button for 5 seconds turned of the SSID broadcast.

[reneer]

This doesn't work, with either of the above two methods with firmware dated 20120130.

While you can turn the wireless off by holding the wireless button down for 5 seconds. As soon as the printer is power cycled it comes right back on.

We need a method to set the "default" to wireless disabled. We cant have any wireless emitters in our work environment now. So I have 8 of these printers that are now useless unless I can disable the wireless entirely.

[ttnh]

It isn't a laserjet.. just and inkjet.. that does not require wireless.. but some how.. it got involved with.. hp wireless set up.. I frankly don't know how  they used it in the past.. and that may not even be the problem.. I just know.. HP ..  has it.. involved somehow and it seems as a laserjet wireless.. and  that may not be the problem either.. i just know it worked before and now it doesn't.. so.. I thought since for now since I don't have a router any more and am not using this computer as wireless.. maybe I could disable the wireless because it keeps popping up and not responding to anything I click on.. what is the answer.. i wish I knew.. is this hp compaq presarioCQ56 have to have the connection for the .. if nothing else for now.. the driver updates.. and ..?.. the paper  work on it was not given to me when they gave it to me.. so I am in the  dark.. thanks  for any help ..

[zachl]

I was able to disable the SSID Broadcast by changing the wireless setup from ad-hoc to infrastructure and adding a dummy ssid for the printer to try to connect to.

Was time consuming but appears to be working.

1. Connect to the printer wirelessly and wait till your laptop and the printer obtain 169.254.X.X ip addresses.
2. Navigate to the printers web interface using the 169.254.X.X address that you'll find on the printer configuration page (Press and hold the cancel button on the printer for 5 seconds and the config page will print)
3. Go to the "Networking Tab" on the web interface
4. Select "Wireless" from the left hand column
5. Change "Communication Mode" to "Infrastructure"
6. Change the "Current Network Name (SSID)" to a non-existing wireless network ( I used disabled)
7. Apply the settings

You can always reset the printer by holding the "Cancel" and "Wifi" buttons down while powering up the printer.

[JACKMOSS]

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@pandrews01 wrote:

I have been tasked with disabling the wireless on our HP Laserjet p1102w printers. Following the instructions in the manual I have disabled the wireless, but it continues to broadcast.

Printing the Configuration page verifies the Wireless Status = Disabled.

Any idea what I can do to disable the printers from broadcasting completely?

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[JACKMOSS]

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@TwinsXT wrote:

What do you mean "but it continues to broadcast."? Do you mean the printer wireless blue light keep blinking?

The simple way to disable the wireless on P1102w is to hold the wireless button for more than 5 seconds, and the blue light will go off. and wireless broadcasting is disabled. Please try it.

Hope it helps.

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@TwinsXT wrote:

What do you mean "but it continues to broadcast."? Do you mean the printer wireless blue light keep blinking?

The simple way to disable the wireless on P1102w is to hold the wireless button for more than 5 seconds, and the blue light will go off. and wireless broadcasting is disabled. Please try it.

Hope it helps.

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