Any wireless printer experts?

[davewhite04]

Hi all,

My friend has got a Epson Stylus SX425W and it has an option to connect directly to his computer.

He uses a dongle to connect to the Internet so doesn't have a router hence using a direct connection.

I've set-up the ad-hoc connection to the printer successfully, and it prints while connected to the Internet via the dongle.

However it does not start-up this connection when the computer starts up from cold. I have to go into the network screen and some how it starts working.

Now the Internet connection uses the home network type.

The printer uses a public network type.

I can only think that this is causing the problem.

Has anyone got experience with this problem, if so did you manage to automatically start the public network on start-up? If not is it possible to change the Ad hoc printer connection so it is part of the home network, which I presume will then add the printer to this work and solve the problem?

I am stuck.

Any ideas and help will be appreciated.

Thanks