Hi Philip Thanks for the answer.
I guess, I was not very clear in my description. Sorry for that. The LaserJet is connected via Ethernet to my local LAN. In order to access it, you can either use its IP address or its given LAN name. The HP printer driver uses the LAN name for connecting to the LaserJet. However, it does not use the "normal" DNS system for resolving the name, but uses multi-cast DNS resolution, which is a protocol for home-user LANs without a dedicated DNS server. That worked fine with my old router. Now that I exchanged it with the astlinux box, the HP driver can no longer find the printer. I checked the TCP/IP packets with wireshark and do see the Laserjet announcing via mDNS what it actual IP adress is. Then, however, the HP driver tries to contact it. I see an mDNS request "Where is LaserJet.local?", which does not get answered. That's where it fails. I have no idea, why it fails. Actually the router should not be involved in it, except to relay all mDNS traffic into the whole LAN network. Whatever, I found a configuration switch for the HP drivers to not use mDNS but instead a direct IP. Now it works for me. Michael Philip Prindeville wrote: > I'm using: > > P910ND_DEVICE0="/dev/usblp0" > P910ND_ADNAME0="Epson Artisan 810" > > and it seems to work fine. That's with 4022 or later. > > > > On 7/10/10 3:59 AM, Michael wrote: >> Hello everybody >> >> Thanks for all the answers. That sounds promising. >> >> I will test your configs. Probably it is a config problem here. I know >> nothing about configuring a hostap. >> >> But another problem just popped up. I can't print on my Laserjet. I can >> use it as a scanner (with xsane) but the HP printer driver doen't find >> the Laserjet. Seems to be a problem of mDNS/Bonjour services, of which I >> again know nothing (there are lookup errors to Laserjet.local in syslog). >> I will open another thread for this. >> >> Anyway, right now work is calling urgently. I need to get a few things >> from my desk immediately. >> >> I will come back to you as soon as I have some time free again. >> >> Thanks. This is a great software and there are very helpful people on >> this list!!! >> >> Michael >> >> >> Michael wrote: >> >> >>> Hello >>> >>> I use Astlinux on an alix box and it runs great. Now I want to also >>> replace my wlan router with it. That works for WAN and LAN, but I can't >>> get the WLAN AP to work correctly. No computer can successfully >>> associate. >>> >>> I have used three different WLAN cards, one with an Atheros AR9220 (my >>> favorite one) and two others with AR5414 and AR5213A. The first uses >>> Ath9k and the latter two Ath5k. All exhibit the same problem. >>> >>> Now I read that Master mode was not well supported in kernels below >>> 2.6.31. So I would like to replace the kernel with a newer version. >>> >>> Is there somewhere a how-to on remastering astlinux? And where can I >>> find the kernel config? >>> >>> Thanks for any help. >>> >>> Michael >>> >>> >>> >>> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [email protected].
