[GRLUG] linux friendly print/scan server device?

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Tue, 2012-10-09 at 11:04 -0400, megadave wrote:
> I've seen some info on that.. The problem comes down to being able to
> find somewhere to obtain one. Anything I buy needs to be either "buy
> in person at local brick&mortar" or order online and have shipped via
> USPS only. So many online merchants offer only UPS or worse just vague
> "standard shipping".
> As it happens, I've done  bit more poking around. Tim suggested
> finding a suitable OpenWRT device with USB, and since I'm already
> familiar with OpenWRT I decided to do some more research in that area.
> Availability is still the trick, but I did manage to find a Linksys
> NSLU2 that I think will work for $45. (shipped USPS)

Excellent, be sure to post back later how well this works.

My experience with using OpenWRT to drive devices is that it "works" but
falls apart under real-world load (you can print a man page, but
printing a slide deck - nope).   But I was using a Linksys WRT54GL
[which does have an 'undocumented' USB port].  Maybe the newer WAPs have
more gas, and obviously the software has evolved.