Prepare a mac os x – HP Photosmart 3310 All-in-One Printer User Manual

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i.

Click

OK

, to close the

Wireless network properties

window. and then click

OK

again.

j.

Click

OK

again to close the

Wireless Network Properties Connection

window.

8.

Go to your HP All-in-One and use the

Wireless Setup Wizard

to connect your

HP All-in-One to the wireless network. See

Connect to a wireless ad hoc network

.

Prepare a Mac OS X

To prepare your computer
➔ Quit all applications running on your computer and temporarily disable all firewalls.

To create a new network profile

Note

Your HP All-in-One comes configured with a network profile with

hpsetup as the SSID. However, for security and privacy HP recommends you
create a new network profile on your Mac as described here, and then run the
Wireless Setup Wizard to detect the new network (as described in the next
section).

1.

Make sure that your AirPort is turned on.
When AirPort is turned on, the following icon appears in the menu bar.

To check this, click on the

AirPort

icon.

If

Turn Airport On

is available, select it to turn on AirPort.

If the AirPort icon is not present, do the following:
a.

On the

Network Preferences

screen, select

Airport Panel

.

b.

Enable

Allow the computer to create networks

.

c.

Enable

Show Airport status in menu bar

.

2.

Click the

AirPort

icon.

3.

Select

Create Network…

.

4.

On the

Computer to Computer

dialog, click in the

Name

box and enter a new

network name.
For example you can type the name Mynetwork (or something more meaningful,
such as your initials).

Note

Notice that the M in Mynetwork is uppercase (capital), and the rest

of the letters are lowercase (small). This is important to remember in case
you need to enter the SSID at a later time on the Wireless Setup Wizard.

5.

In the

Channel

box, use the default

Automatic

setting.

6.

Click

Show Options

.

7.

To enable encryption for security, select the

Encryption

check box.

8.

In the

Password

box, type a password that has exactly 5 or exactly 13

alphanumeric (ASCII) characters. For example, if you enter 5 characters, you

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