TL-PS310U and Slackware64 14
 

Hi everybody. I wanted to share an HP P1005 printer over a lan composed of 7 (Slackware) pcs connected via 2 netgear routers.
A friend of mine gave me this small box (TP LINK TL-PS310U) which claims to be a print server, but so far I haven't been able to make it work. The software specification on the official site of TP LINK says it can use the protocol LPR/LPD. I can see the printer on 192.168.1.10, but it doesn't print. I configured CUPS (localost:631) to use LPR/LPD protocol (lpd://192.168.1.10/) but it doesn't work. What do I miss? Something about CUPS? AFAIK the LPD protocol is universal, so it should work even if the printer server is an only Win box.
Luigi

Why don't you use socket, socket://192.168.1.10? This is easy way.

Thank you for answering! Tried! doesn't work!

What do you mean by see the printer?

According to the manual the printer should be lpd://192.168.1.10/lp1

Do you install LINK TL-PS310U driver? It provide PPD file.

the print server has a default ip address (192.168.0.10), I connected the print server to the netgear router and changed the ip address (192.168.1.10) then I connected to the print server (through firefox port 80) and saw that the print server reported an hp printer connected.

I've also tried lpd://192.168.1.10/lp1 but the only effect is that the leds on the router and on the print server start blinking and .... after fifteen minutes nothing happens.
I begin to think that the print server only works using the software specifically written for Winxp! It seems that the device is somewhat blocked.
Thank anyway
Luigi

The only software I found on the print server disk is for winxp so I can't use it for Slackware64, it doesn't even work via wine (slackware64 multilib)
thanks anyway
Luigi

You can try Brother driver. Some Brother is compatible with TL-PS310U and it support Linux, maybe not Slackware.