[Freeflyer]

Hi all,

yesterday a power cut fried the jetdirect card in my old laserjet 5. Until I can get another card I'm need to reconfigure to print via the print server built into my netgear router (FM114P).

The laserjet is non-postscript, so I've been using cups and gimp-print to drive it, but I couldn't see a way to specify to use the print server.

Can anyone suggest how I might go about doing this.

Thanks,

J.

[ghporter]

You specify the print server by specifying the IP address of the print server. This is straight, Unix IP printing, so it shouldnt' be too big an issue.

[Freeflyer]

Thanks, seems obvious now I think about it.

Unfortunately it doesn't look to be that easy. I need to configure the queue name correctly and that's causing problems. I tried to do this using print center, and nothing prints. I've tried doing the same thing via cups, but there are many options for the queue format.

In the netgear manual, it says to enter the ip address of the router and then select default queue. I did this, selected laserjet 5 via cups and gimp print. Doing this gives a queue of Device URI: lpd://10.0.0.1/ but the printing only gets as far as spooling.

I'm guessing here that it's the queue name that's at fault. Could anyone suggest a correct format.

When working, via ethernet, the queue name was Device URI: socket://169.254.18.136:9100/ I tried just replacing the ip address but that didn't work either.

Thanks,

J.