Networked Printing on a DI-707P Router? 45
Feztaa asks: "I've recently purchased a D-Link DI-707P wired router, which comes equipped with a parallel port, so that you can share your printer with all computers on the local network without having to rely on somebody's computer to be on for the printer to work. Unfortunately, the router only ships with print drivers for windows. The D-Link support website basically says 'for Linux printing support, go ask the Open Source community'. I've been googling for the past few days, but most searches that include 'DI-707P' just return sites trying to sell me one. Here's what I know so far: The router's web-based config system provides no configuration for the printer, it just tells me if there's a printer plugged in and turned on or not. I portscanned the router and found that port 515 is open. I know that's LPD, but I don't know how to configure that on my system. I'm using Red Hat 9, and the GUI tools will allow me to configure a networked printer using LPD, but I can't get the thing to actually print (it asks for the IP of the printer and the name queue; I don't know how to find out the name of the queue). The printer I'm using is a BJC-250. I've had absolutely no trouble printing on this printer when it was plugged into my parallel port, so I know the printer works fine. Does anybody have any experience with this router (or similar D-Link routers), and if so, what did you have to do to get your Linux system printing with it?"
Re:Doh! (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Doh! (Score:1, Flamebait)
I rest my case.
Re:Doh! (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Doh! (Score:2)
Re:Doh! (Score:3, Informative)
He's already said he looked on D-Link's site (although not that hard because the answer to the queue name question is right here [dlink.com]).
Yes, the attitude is one thing, but y'know what? This isn't a site for newbies! It's "News for NERDS etc.
But it's a slow news day, so what can ya do?
Re:Doh! (Score:2)
Dear Slashdot, (Score:3, Funny)
Thanks!
Re:Dear Slashdot, (Score:1, Redundant)
Yes, but what's your question?
Try the Mac OS X instructions (Score:4, Informative)
# For "Device URI" use "lpd://(hostname)/lp"
Found on http://homepage.usask.ca/~dkm560/713p.html [usask.ca] via a Google search for "linux D-Link lpd queue".
Not sure if it will work on a D-Link, but... (Score:1)
Re:Not sure if it will work on a D-Link, but... (Score:2)
At one point (on an earlier model?) the que might have been lp, but they changed it, I suppose to make more sense for windows users. They just never changed the documentation. I had to dig around for a while.
Basic LPR stuff? (Score:2)
It's been a while, but I believe the default queue name is 0 - but it depends on the LPR device.
Did you 'just try it' with different queue names?
Re:Basic LPR stuff? (Score:3, Informative)
If yer using KDE, switch to CUPS for your printing system, and use the enormously well - concieved and realized add printer wizard for an remote LPR queue. You might have to add a CUPS package for LPD compatibility, depending on your distro.
If you are not using KDE, install and configure CUPS anyway - with all the foomatic and GIMP-print add-ons. The web-based administration tool that ships as part of CUPS will do the job nearly as well as
Re:Basic LPR stuff? (Score:1)
Most HP equipment doesn't really care what queue you send things to, it just prints whatever it gets.. It sure makes life easier.
Local Share? (Score:1)
Re:Local Share? (Score:2)
Re:Local Share? (Score:2)
TREASON!!! (Score:2)
ARE YOU INSANE???
Ah FUCK (Score:1, Flamebait)
Type "DI-707P" in the google box and hit "I'm feeling lucky".
There you go. Your fucking queue name is called "lp". Now, with that and a nice little man page, you should be ready to go.
I mean, Goddamn, can't you use Google?
And WTF is it with
Re:Ah FUCK (Score:1)
I've had traceroutes (even tcptraceroutes) to slashdot.org failing for the past few hours...
Re:Ah FUCK (Score:2)
Re:Ah FUCK (Score:2)
I did this for my DeskJet842C (Score:2)
Name : DeskJet842C
Description : My Printer
Queue Type Tab
Queue Type : Networked UNIX (LPD)
Server : 192.168.0.1 (default)
Queue : lp (default)
try RAW (Score:2)
Possible print queue names... (Score:1)
The most comon queue names are:
PRINT, RAW, LP, and LPT1
I would expect one of those to work.
Had a simmilar problem (Score:1)
PORT1 (Score:1)
Jesus Christ (Score:4, Insightful)
The queue name was 'lp'. Now go to hell, you bastards.
Re:Jesus Christ (Score:1)
Re:Jesus Christ (Score:2)
Back off on the attitude, pal! (Score:2)
You asked a lpd 101 question that could easily have been Googled, which is an invitation for flames. But, you submitted a question to askSlashdot, with the intent of it NOT being posted? That's asinine.
If you didn't want it posted, you should not have submitted it. The fact that you are getting flamed now is your own fault and telling people to "go to hell" is just inviting more flam
Re:Back off on the attitude, pal! (Score:2)
Did you not read the part where I said I was googling and couldn't find anything? Contrary to what that one guy said, "I'm feeling lucky" on a search for "DI-707P" does not provide me with any useful information. Every result that I've been able to find for that search is just some site trying to sell me the router, not any sites providing me with any useful information.
But, you submitted a question to askSlashdot, with the intent of it NO
Try this (Score:1)
If it prints a calendar you are in business
Seriously everything you need to print is text right?
To print out a file just replace "cal 2003" with "cat your.file" what could be simpler?
Wang33
WTF IS UP WITH THE -1 REDUNDANT MODS? (Score:1, Offtopic)
If you are too stupid to understand what the options are in the moderation, then DON'T FUCKING MODERATE!! There's a bunch of negative moderations here that are marked Redundant, like someone else made the same joke.
If you want to moderate something down, and don't want to worry about the reason, just use Overrated. Sure, it's the pussy way out, and isn't subject to M2, but at least it would make more sense than using a moderation option that isn't even remotely close to why the post needs modded down.
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RTFM (Score:1)
Why not just... (Score:1)
You may not like the answer, but... (Score:1)