When I first got this printer I did the easy setup by simply pressing and holding the wireless button on the printer to get it into WPS mode and pressing the WPS button on my Netgear AP to get it to connect. From there I had it up and running fine on my desktop, phones, and tablets.
Then one day, after a local power outage, someone in my family noticed he couldn't connect to the printer at all. So I tried printing something on my desktop to no avail. Looked into my router and saw that it was offline, despite the printer's WiFi indicator showing that it wasn't.
Alright fine, so I do the setup again. Still offline. I checked my Netgear's web panel and found that it was indeed connected to my access point, but it was not getting a DHCP address. I further checked the router itself and found it was still listed as offline (its a frontier router, so super limited in details and actions).
The next thing I did was try going through the network setup bundled with the driver. Did the WPS setup and printed out a diagnostic and found my problem:
IPv4 Settings: Auto Obtain: On Select Protocol: DHCP Auto IP: On IP Address: 168.254.42.208 Subnet Mask: 255.255.0.0 Gateway Address: 192.168.254.254
The subnet mask is not right at all. Nor was the IP address it somehow got assigned. The DHCP range was set to 192.168.254.10-200 and the subnet mask is 255.255.255.0. The only thing right was the gateway (although I had one retry that gave the gateway of my AP address of 192.168.1.250). Where'd it get those values? Is it like Windows in that it just sets whatever it wants as a local network when it can't find one? And it will continuously do this, using the same IP address.
Alright, so I figured I'd set it myself. I went through the setup to manually input the SSID and static IP. The print out confirmed my inputs and both my router and AP are reporting that the printer had established a connection with the following information:
IPv4 Settings: Auto Obtain: OFF Select Protocol: OFF Auto IP: OFF IP Address: 192.168.254.144 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 Gateway Address: 192.168.254.254
Unfortunately, both Windows and Canon's driver software cannot see this printer on the network, even when I manually put in the address. Using an old fashioned ping results in timeouts. Reboots do not help. Nothing in both my AP and router have settings that prevent static IPs or the address. I can still print to the thing using a USB connection, but that isn't the purpose of this printer.
So any ideas? Is the wireless on this thing busted or am I not seeing one detail that'll fix this?