USB printer, USB card and sharing it over a LAN

[Marc]

Op 30-sep-04 om 19:12 heeft Eric D het volgende geschreven:

> Alright, I have a three plus one part question re network printing and 
> USB PCI cards:
>
> I have a PowerMac G3 Beige 266 MHz (Rev B) running YDL 3.0.1 as a 
> server (http, ftp, ssh, Samba at the moment, and WebDAV, nfs and atalk 
> in the near) and would like to turn it into a print server for my USB 
> Canon i550 inkjet. This will require me to add a USB PCI card to the 
> Beige G3.
>
> 1. Is it possible to use any old USB PCI card to add USB support to a 
> PowerMac G3 Beige or does it have to be a specific one? If specific, 
> is there a list of supported cards anywhere? (or, does anyone have 
> suggestions)?

I have the same G3, and look for an usb card too ;-)
I was lucky to have  a PC ethernet 10/100 card that is recognised under 
linux,
not under macos 9.  (deleting the card gave problems in linux, but I 
solved it by
deleting all eth in linux "network control panel" and adding again...)

>
> 2. Can you hook up a printer (Canon i550) to the USB card and print to 
> it from YDL?

Look for things like gimpprint or linuxprinting.org, they might have 
the drivers..

The problem might be the hardware address, look in OS X, I have a 
usb-parallel printer,
device URI is usb://Unknown/Unknown?serial=0
Maybe you can copy this in linux...  (I installed os X on my G3/266 
with the latest
xpostfacto...)

>
> 3. Is it possible to network the printer such that Mac users running 
> OS X (and, perhaps 9) can print to it?

OS X with gimpprint or l-printing, os 9: see your os 9 driver and I 
know there is a usb-sharing extension,
so I guess, maybe yes...

Marc,