[GRLUG] linux friendly print/scan server device?

[megadave]

Well I got it the other day. I put openwrt on, not debian.

After about a day's worth of screwing around with it I've manage to
get it doing what I wanted it to do.

Due to its very limited internal storage,  I added a USB flash drive
to use as "overlay" for its unionfs.

After some screwing around, (and  bit of swearing) I have hplip, cups,
saned humming along nicely. I decided to leave my parallel laser on
the old jetdirect box I have.

There is no foomatic for cups in openwrt, so I ended up using an
xinetd entry to just make the USB printer appear as a raw
appsocket/jetdirect to cups on my workstation(s), which of course do
have all that. One bit of contention is that openwrt's usb printer
kernel mod conflicts with the one provided by hplip, so that was a bit
of a trick. Also some issues with cups where the permissions on stuff
werent as it assumed they would be.

All told, I'm happy with it.



On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Josh <leapole at gmail.com> wrote:
> great device once you put debian on it, it will be a little slower than the
> pi but should work great for what you are doing
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Tim Schmidt <timschmidt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 1:44 PM, megadave <megadave at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Any thoughts on the NSLU2? (Yes, its a bit late now since its ordered
>> > already.. :)
>>
>> It's of the older generation.  I was going to send you a
>> recommendation after I saw you leaning toward it, but I didn't jump
>> quickly enough.  Still, I have a half dozen similar devices (Netgear
>> WGT634U running the latest OpenWRT) still toiling away thanklessly,
>> without so much as a hiccup in years.  I consider a wireless router,
>> with a USB port, running OpenWRT to be network duct tape.  In a pinch
>> it can function as anything from a wireless network adapter, bridge,
>> repeater, ethernet switch, print / scanner server, file server,
>> network attached web camera, whatever.  You can never have too many at
>> your disposal.
>>
>> --tim
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