Please explain to me what a duplicate ipv4 error means?

[GrannySmith1]

Long story short. Cannot setup a new laser printer I got via wifi. Hours of frustration. Want to punch a hole through the wall and burn my printer.

I have an HP pavilion slimline s5510y. Connected to my router using an ethernet cable. Router is a linksys wrt54gs.

I've come to a 99% certain conclusion that this is due to the ipv4 duplicate error that is displaying on my printer. Somebody explain to me what this means?

So I thought I understood all this internet, wireless crap. I thought I was the wireless networking king. I've setup things to my network before manually, entering in all the right numbers. I thought it was pretty easy.

Why is this printer not following along? What the heck is this ipv4 duplicate error I've never encountered before in my life? Please help me better understand all of this stuff. Ip addresses, gateways, networking in general? Perhaps I've had it wrong all my life?

Here is how I set it up. I go on my computer and download the wizard. I manually set up my printer using the wizard. It asks for my ipv4 address, subnet mask, gateway, etc. All of this is not new. I click ipconfig on my desktop and enter in whatever that says.

 

[Someone Somewhere]

It means that somehow you've assigned two devices (the printer and something else) the same IP address.

You need to enter a different IP from the one on your computer. Incrementing the last block is the usual way.

 

[GrannySmith1]

Thank you for the reply kind sir.

I have tried that and will see what happens. I changed the last digit to a 9 when on my computer it is a 6.

If this doesn't fix it, I think I am going to throw this printer at my computer :/.

Update: Changed last digit to a 9. Still would not work. Turns out, I needed to go into the properties and create a new LCP port. Whatever that is.

Thank you for the help!