[ale] finding printer connected to wireless router

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Tue Dec 20 17:48:06 EST 2011


I went digging into the docs on the router and it's all "you must install
both the printer driver AND the router driver".

so it sounds like it has a funky network driver or it's trying to make
something too easy

It also has a web based interface for configuring things so there may be a
way to poke setting there. The manual had no info other than what IP to use
to get to it. It really was all about how to install and use their software
tool.

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Geoffrey Myers <lists at serioustechnology.com
> wrote:

> 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

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

http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/
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