From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:00:35 EST-10EDT,10,1,0,7200,4,1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1847 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Friday 14 August 2009 Number 1847 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Network printer : Peter L Allen" 2 Re: Network printer : Ed Durrant 3 Re: Network printer : Chuck McKinnis **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:22:54 +1000 (EST) From: "Peter L Allen" Subject: Network printer Want to set up to print over LAN for OS2, Linux and doze boxes. It's a HP Laserjet 5 - has NETJet card - fairly early one - firmware 3.08. I presume I need to set the IP and other stuff to suitable values. This is a pretty standard setup run off a router. Printer needs to be set to???? For instance? IP address 192.168.1.40 Subnet 255.255.255.0 and would Gateway be IP of the router? eg 192.168.1.1 This stuff makes my head hurt - plan to get it going on doze first - then the real stuff. Please comment if I'm astray in my ideas, Regards, allenpl -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG === **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:36:07 +1000 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: Network printer Peter L Allen wrote: > Want to set up to print over LAN for OS2, Linux and doze boxes. > > It's a HP Laserjet 5 - has NETJet card - fairly early one - firmware 3.08. > I presume I need to set the IP and other stuff to suitable values. > This is a pretty standard setup run off a router. > > Printer needs to be set to???? > For instance? > IP address 192.168.1.40 > Subnet 255.255.255.0 > and would Gateway be IP of the router? > eg 192.168.1.1 > > This stuff makes my head hurt - plan to get it going on doze first - then the real stuff. > > Please comment if I'm astray in my ideas, > > Regards, > allenpl > > -------------------------------------------------- > > http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG === > > Yes, Yes and Yes (actually the router one is the most important one - not sure why but I have had several occasions where a colleague has missed this - "oh the printer's only for use within the LAN" - but the printer is simply not happy without a default router/gateway address). You'll possibly find it can also be contacted via Netbeui from Windows and eCS (those early cards had IP, Netbeui and Netware capabilities) - but stick with IP as it's the normal standard now. -- Cheers/2 Ed Checkout my eComStation Australia Podcasts Search on eComStationAustralia in iTunes or set up Thunderbird to look at http://eComStationAustralia.podbean dot com/feed or simply go to the webpage http://eComstationAustralia.podbean dot com Don't miss the tenth Warpstock Europe at Stralsund, Germany 12-15 November 2009 check out - http://www.warpstock.eu for details. (I will be presenting on Virtualisation and eCS at the conference). -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG === **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:51:43 -0600 From: Chuck McKinnis Subject: Re: Network printer Peter L Allen wrote: > Want to set up to print over LAN for OS2, Linux and doze boxes. > > It's a HP Laserjet 5 - has NETJet card - fairly early one - firmware 3.08. > I presume I need to set the IP and other stuff to suitable values. > This is a pretty standard setup run off a router. > > Printer needs to be set to???? > For instance? > IP address 192.168.1.40 > Subnet 255.255.255.0 > and would Gateway be IP of the router? > eg 192.168.1.1 > > This stuff makes my head hurt - plan to get it going on doze first - then the real stuff. > > Please comment if I'm astray in my ideas, > > Regards, > allenpl I have 2 network printers. One is directly attached to my router and the other uses a little Netgear Ethernet to USB box. Give the printer a fixed IP and make sure it is not in the DHCP address range of the router. I happen to use 192.168.2.250 and 192.168.2.251. The router has an IP of 192.168.2.1 and serves up DHCP addresses 192.168.2.101-150. For eCS, I would install the following port driver. The configurator is not fancy, but it works. http://hobbes2.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/system/drivers/printer/ipspool104.zip With this port driver, you can send everything to port 9100 at the printer IP address on all of your systems. Windows calls this the "raw" mode. -- Chuck McKinnis 1449 State Highway 14 N Sandia Park, NM 87047 505-286-3191 http://www.7cities dot net/~mckinnis/ Pray without ceasing. 1 Thessalonians 5:17 -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG ===