Lexmark E250dn Reset IP Address
To reset the IP address back to DHCP on a Lexmark E250dn network printer.
- Turn power switch (back of the printer) to OFF
- Open front panel
- While holding down the front panel Continue and Cancel buttons, power on the printer.
- Keep holding the two buttons down until the error light (leftmost led) becomes solid.
- Release buttons and close front panel.
For the longest time, I had an odd network set up.
Since I have Comcast, I've got a Linksys BEFCMU10 cable modem plugged into the wall. You would think that plugging in any router to the cable modem should work, right?
Nope.
My Linksys WRT54G could never get the IP information from the router. Linksys to Linksys, who would have thought it was so much trouble?
I had this Linksys RT31P2 Vongage router lying around. I didn't have Vonage anymore, but it was a perfectly working router. So I plugged the RT31P2 into the cable modem.
It got an IP just fine. WTF?
After spending a couple hours trying to figure out what was going on, I gave up, and just plugged the WRT54G into the Vonage router. Got some three way Linksys action going.
Everything worked fine really, it just always seemed like an idiotic setup. Somewhere along the line, I gave the Lexmark E250dn a permanent DHCP address.
I tried replacing the WRT54G stock firmware with DD-WRT, but it never quite worked the way I wanted it to. Then on a mailing list, someone asked about Tomato firmware. Not to be shallow, but the screenshots of the administrative panel got me hooked. It was pretty and slick. Decided to give it a shot.
What do you know. I plugged the WRT54G into the cable modem and everything worked. Yay!
Of course, by this point I had forgotten what the printer's IP address was. The Tomato firmware defaulted to a different subnet for the internal network. I could have grabbed something like nmap and figured it out, but why do all that work with Google around. Plus I had no clue where the printer manuals were.
The above directions worked perfectly.
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