[ale] finding printer connected to wireless router

[Geoffrey Myers]

Jim Kinney wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Geoffrey Myers 
> <lists at serioustechnology.com <mailto:lists at serioustechnology.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Jim Kinney wrote:
>      > this really sounds like a windows-only printer share device to me.
>      >
>      > Try installing the missing client tools (samba-client, ipp, etc)
>     on your
>      > linux machine and then treat the printer as a windows shared printer
>      > (i.e. it's shared out by a windows machine that it's USB
>     connected to).
> 
>     As I read it, the printer connects directly to the router.  I would
>     expect that it should be provided an IP there.  Jim, are you sure you're
>     pointing your linux at the printer IP and not the router IP?
> 
> 
> It will likely be the router IP as that is the device providing the 
> access/USB connection.

I'm thinking it would work like the device I have that has an ethernet 
and usb port.  Plug the printer into the usb, the ethernet to the router 
and that little device get's it's own ip.

> 
> 
>     Just thinking out loud.
> 
>      >
>      > You can also try using the IPP ports with the IP address instead
>     of the
>      > jet-direct port.
>      >
>      > Lastly, I've had decent success setting up a problem printer (not
>     like
>      > this one) using the browser cups client when the distro printer
>     config
>      > tools fail me.
>      >
>      > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Jim Philips
>     <briarpatch.jim at gmail.com <mailto:briarpatch.jim at gmail.com>
>      > <mailto:briarpatch.jim at gmail.com
>     <mailto:briarpatch.jim at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>      >
>      >     I just bought a Belkin N600 wireless router. It allows you to
>     connect
>      >     your printer to the router via USB cable. I can print to this
>     printer
>      >     in Windows. But in Linux, I have one problem after another.
>     This is in
>      >     Linux Mint 12. If I try CUPS, it never sees a printer at the IP
>      >     address of the router. If I create the printer anyway and use
>     the IP
>      >     address, plus port, like so: 192.168.2.1:9100
>     <http://192.168.2.1:9100>
>      >     <http://192.168.2.1:9100>. The printer appears to
>      >     get installed. But if I try to print anything, CUPS just says
>     "the
>      >     printer is busy". If I try using the standard printer setup
>     tools in
>      >     Gnome, I'm immediately greeted by this message:
>      >
>      >     "FirewallD is not running..."
>      >
>      >     And a notice about needing mdns, ipp, ipp-client and samba-client
>      >     enabled on the firewall. Extensive googling hasn't found
>     anybody who
>      >     got past this issue. I don't even know if it's  *the* issue
>     preventing
>      >     my printer from being seen on the network. But all available
>     tools
>      >     fail to show anything connected to the router. I don't know
>     where to
>      >     turn. Please let me know if fellow ALErs have figures this
>     out before.
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> James P. Kinney III
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> As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to 
> consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as 
> they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
> - ////2011 Noam Chomsky
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Until later, Geoffrey

"I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent
the government from wasting the labors of the people under
the pretense of taking care of them."
- Thomas Jefferson