[kwlug disc.] Ubuntu Torrents are up

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

Thanks Lori, really good info there.

This is something I am considering too, for less power consumption, simpler
operation, ...etc.

But ...

   - The print server worked perfectly on older Kubuntu for years (it is a
   PII-450!). It only broke for 7.10, and continues to be broken with 8.04
   (this makes it 4 issues so far).
   - It has an old Windows 2000 partition that has comes in handy for
   certain kind of stuff (but not so much of late, trying to wean all of us
   from Microsoft's last bastions).
   - It also doubles as a workstation for a 5 year old.
   - The home router is in the basement, the printer is on the first floor.
   If the Asus is to become the main router, it means some major cabling (from
   the cable modem in the basement up to the first floor, and back to the
   basement for the switch to the rest of the wired portion of the network).

Nice to know that it can do (potentially) do scanning too.

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:26 AM, L.D. Paniak <ldpaniak at fourpisolutions.com>
wrote:

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> Might I suggest that you consider using an OpenWRT router like the Asus
> WL500g Premium (with two USB ports) as a print server?
>
> I used to have an old laptop with CUPS running the printers with
> occasional problems like you describe.  The OpenWRT print server is
> p910nd which just passes client print jobs off to the printers. Almost
> no configuration and it works well with Linux and Windows.
>
> Also, it appears that the router can be configured as a scanner server
> using saned- though I have yet to try that trick.
>
>
> Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> > I have had issues upgrading the print server PC from Kubuntu 7.04 to
> 7.10.
> >
> > The printer (HP PSC 1315) worked fine on the older one.
> > Once I upgraded the printer is not detected in CUPS, although it shows
> > up in lsusb.
> >
> > I upgraded today to 8.04, and although the error message when doing
> > lpstat -t is gone, the printer still does not print. I tried deleting
> > the printer from the System Settings -> Printers, but after doing that,
> > there is no local printer to configure.
> >
> > Sigh ...
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