[TriLUG] Linksys WPS11 wireless Question

[Steven Blanchard]

It would surprise me if OS X would not talk to CUPS, and for that matter 
the WPS11.

OS X (10.2.x at least) has CUPS support, which allows sharing printers 
using the IPP protocol. Also, you can configure new printers using the 
CUPS web interface, so it should be no problem to set up an IPP based 
printer. A small bit of research shows that the WPS11 supports IPP based 
printing so in theory it should work just fine with OS X. This should 
also fix the problem of having to have appletalk running on the linux box.

System Preferences->Sharing->Printer Sharing is how I turned on CUPS. 
The web interface is accessed by http://mac_ip:631/ (permissions on the 
web interface can get funky--I reccomend coming at it from localhost, 
and it would be a good idea to firewall the port)

Greg Brown wrote:
> Well, no I never did solve this problem.
> 
> What I did do, and what has worked thus far, was to connect my HP 
> laserjet to my RH 8.0 box.  I configured the printer sharing with CUPS 
> and hoped for the best.  The result is I could print to the printer from 
> other Linux hosts but not OS X.  So I more-or-less gave up and loaded up 
> the Appletalk protocol on my Linux box (which I really hated doing - 
> I've had it in for appletalk and it's broadcasty nature since the early 
> 90's).  Anyway, once Appletalk was loaded on the RH box my Macs saw it 
> right away and everything works great.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Greg
> 
> On Monday, April 28, 2003, at 01:52 PM, zzd wrote:
> 
>> Not quite the same, but we have a HPLJ 5MP attached to a HP300x print
>> server and can print to it from both a Mac Powerbook over our Linksys
>> Wireless-G hub and across the network from our Mandrake PC clones -
>> both of which use CUPS. Both set up to print to a remote IP print
>> server on port 9100.
>>
>> I believe the Linksys print servers also use the same port and should be
>> a snap to create the port and configure the printer through the OS X
>> printer configuration utility. Can't speak for Redhat, but Mandrake
>> found the print server from the printer config util.
>>
>> Hope this provides some useful info,
>> z
>>
>> On Monday 28 April 2003 11:13 am, Abernathy, Bill (B.J.) wrote:
>>
>>> Greg,
>>>
>>> Were you ever able to solve this problem? Because I need to now solve
>>> the same problem.
>>>
>>> "Hey all.  Has anyone ever installed and used a Linksys WPS11
>>> wireless print server in a Mac/Linux environ?  I would like to start
>>> printing with my iBook via Rendezvous, but currently my LaserJet 1200
>>> is configured as a slave (via USB) to my Win2k server which I hope to
>>> retire any day now (and the printer does not have an ethernet port -
>>> just USB and parallel).
>>>
>>> To make a(n already) long story short I'd like to connect the Linksys
>>> WPS11 to the LaserJet 1200 and print to the printer via my RH 7.3
>>> machines, my iBook, and my wife's Win2k laptop.  I'm just wondering
>>> if anyone has done this already and if it worked.
>>>
>>> If the above scenario is known not to work, has anyone printed to a
>>> LaserJet via a HP external print server using RH Linux and Mac's
>>> Jaguar?
>>>
>>> Con mucho gusta,
>>>
>>> Greg"
>>>
>>> Bill
>>
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