Minolga Di200 / Pi3502 Driver

[copyman]

Like I said in my prior reply, you can put all issues to rest by pinging the controller with a "crossover" cable from a laptop or PC. This will tell you once and for all if your problem is the controller or settings.

[Stirton.M]

Hello,
I have a Minolta Di200 with Pi3502 driver.
This printer's IP is stuck at 10.0.1.3(protocol address), and 10.0.1.1 default gateway. Can this be changed? I need to change this information to the IP used in my network (192.168.11.xxx)? My router is not detecting it in its LAN client list.

Please help with direction to follow to get this machine to print from the computer (network mode). Add printer Network printer is not detecting it either.

I am running MS Vista home premium.

Thanks,

Jorge

Download this user manual from Konica Minolta on this particular controller. It will give you specifics on what I will tell you to do. (click the little blue icon with the red arrow to download.)

Konica Minolta Knowlegebase

Also, download the Pagescope users manual here...

Konica Minolta Knowlegebase

This controller is a serious pain in the butt to deal with. It is one of the earliest ones I've had to deal with. When setting up the network controller, it requires a little bit of patience and a some network proficiency.

First off, when you power on the copier, wait a few minutes. You should get a printout automatically of the configuration of the controller. If you do not, check your connections and make sure these are all well connected. This step is important. If you do not get a response automatically, you may need to reset the NIC inside the controller. See the attached images for details on how to reset the NIC. This is also included in the manual.

Assuming you get a printout from the machine that indicates your configuration, we can move on to the rest.

Then, connect to this device via a crossover cable to your laptop or pc. Do not use a router or straight through cable (the latter you can use if you have a nic card that auto-negotiates in your laptop...dells have this capability). Ensure you have your laptop configured with a fixed IP address in its network settings. Preferably you want to use an address range that matches your main network that the printer will eventually connect to.

For example, if you type ipconfig from a dos prompt (in a computer connected to your network), you might get something similar to....

192.168.1.110 (IP address)
255.255.255.0 (Subnet mask)
192.168.1.1 (gateway)

You will want to program your laptop network settings to something similar, if not the same. This is temporary. Be sure that you change the laptop back to DHCP before you reconnect to your network, otherwise you will likely cause a network conflict.

You are specifically interested in the command ARP.

ARP is a throwback to DOS days. The command allows you to bind a specific address in the current computer to the mac address of a particular network card.

Open up a command line...click start menu, select "run" and type "cmd" (without quotes) in the provided space and press enter. A DOS command window will open.

From there, you can use the ARP command. Syntax is

arp -s <IP address assigned to Network Card> <MAC address>

It will look something like

arp -s 192.168.1.99 00-20-6b-aa-bb-cc

the -s is a command that tells the host to assign an IP address to a physical address (MAC address).

The second group, 192.168.1.99 is an arbitrary IP address. Use an address that you know is within your router's assigned list but will not take up the space of a DHCP location. For example, my router assigns addresses from 192.168.1.100 upwards, I would personally choose an address below that range, such as 192.168.1.99. This address is one which you will eventually use when you set up the print driver.

the last bit, 00-20-6b-aa-bb-cc, is the MAC address of the network device within the controller. This number is ALWAYS unique. You should never find a duplicate of it, theoretically. That said, this number can be found on your NIC device, a label will usually display this number. You can also find it listed in the config sheet. The number will always be 6 groups of two digits in Hexadecimal notation. Numbers 0-9 and letters A-F to represent values from 1 through to 16. For example, A represents 10, B represents 11 and so forth.

Regardless, this number is unique.

When you use this command correctly, you can assign "temporarily" an address within the registers of your laptop, to attach directly to that MAC address.

So the command

arp -s 192.168.1.99 00-20-6b-aa-bb-cc

Will assign 192.168.1.99 to the device 00-20-6b-aa-bb-cc

You should be able to ping 192.168.1.99 at this point and get a response from the controller.

If you are successful, you should then be able to web into the controller via windows explorer and Pagescope, access the network settings and permanently set an IP address there.

See attached images on how to reset the NIC controller on the 3502

:edited information

By the way, this controller is not supported in windows Vista.

You will need to use the winxp driver. There is no guarantee this will fully work, but it is the only option. Also, if you are running Vista64, you WILL have problems, namely, unable to install a 32bit driver.