> Greetings -
> Has anyone had any success configuring a Netgear PS104 print server to
> work with Suse (or any other distro, for that matter)? I've tried to
> adapt the BSD directions it came with but am unable to print. Sometimes
> the printer wakes up and acts like its going to print but never does.
> Other times it never even wakes up. The printer works fine when it's
> connected via parallel port directly to the box. I am using the LPRNG
> spooler. I am pretty new to linux having just deleted my Windows
> partitions cold turkey so would appreciate any guidance.
> Regards -
> Matt
FWIW, i have the PS110, and also has quite some problems getting started
with it. The basic first thing that was not documented is what the
printer
ports (the PS110 has two printer ports) were called. They are P1 and
P2.
But even then, I could not get it to work until i let teh windows
program
do the work. My explanation was that the windows software will write
into
the firmware of the PS110 (e.g. the IP of the PS110 in my case, and what
device was connected to the P1 and P2). The nightmare became more
bizarre
when I decided to use P2 with actually an identical printer. Nothing
worked
anymore. Even windows updates to the P110 didn't.... I had to remove all
the software fromthe windows box and start all over and reinitialize the
PS110 from scratch. It's been workikng fine since. Once every blue moon
i have to power down/up the PS110 since it seems stuck.
Sorry, i hope the PS104 is close enough to the PS110 that my comments
make
some sense. Again, the PS110 has 1 ethernet port and 2 parallel printer
ports.
The relevant portion from my /etc/printcap file looks something like
this:
ps2:\
:rm=ps:\
:rp=P2:\
ps1:\
:rm=ps:\
:rp=P1:\
where the IP of 'ps' is defined in /etc/hosts :
192.168.1.101 ps
- peter