I've got a DLink DP-313 wireless print server that I have my printers on. Works fine with windows (duh). However I can't figure out how to get it to work, (or even if it will work) with Linux. It supports LPR TCP/IP connections. So far no dice.

I've got SuSE 9.0 with KDE 3.1. Does anyone else have this print server or a similar DLink print server? Has anyone had any luck on getting it to work with Linux?



(Its quite possible that this just isn't going to happen, DLinks web site says nothing about any kind of Linux support)



If not does anyone know of a networkable (pref wireless) print server that will play nice with Linux? I don't want to have to setup a stand alone machine running CUPS server just so I can print, that seems like overkill. Any ideas appreciated...

  I've got a similar problem, trying to print to a dlink DI-704UP print server. I know it's possible, although unsupported. Dlink gives the instruction to print to the IP 192.168.0.1 and the queue "lp" (lowercase L and P), which should work, although they don't tell you anything about port numbers or protocols. (in fact, that's all they tell you. The information is given on the page for the related router - DI-704P - , but it's not actually specified on the DI-704UP.)

  Using Slack 9.0, and KDE 3.1, I've been able to get it to print the top 5cm of a test page, if I wait about 10 minutes for the printer to mull it over. Clearly printing from linux to the print server is possible, but I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Why only the top 5cm?

  Anyhow, I'll keep playing with it - I'm sure it'll work eventually.

Hi fejes

I am also trying to get the DI-704UP to work using Mandrake 9.2. Have you had any luck? I can't get anything to print.

Regards,
Bill Dika

Actually, I played with it for a while, mainly using Fedora C2T3, but wasn't able to get it to work consistently. Ironically, the windows computers had no problem printing to it, using the same print queue, while Linux printing is messy and extremely unreliable!

In the end, I used your "overkill" method and set up another box to run as a print server. Generally, I won't give up on a problem until I've studied it from EVERY possible angle. Short of trying to reverse engineer the hardware, I feel I've exhausted any logical method of attacking this problem, and was unable to come up with a solution. If it's not too late, I strongly urge you to replace this hardware!

And, just for the record, D-link does mention that this model "should" work with Linux, but is unsuported. In reality, I think that's more of a gimick to get people to buy the DI-704UP, and have them spend a month trying to get it to work, so that it's too late to take it back. (-;

While I'm ranting, don't buy an HP1012, either - it's has "personality problems", and requires frequent power cycles while attached to a Linux computer. (It claims to support Linux printing too!)

Hi fejes

Many thanks for your reply. It is not too late for me to take the Dlink router back and that is what I am going to do. Also, thanks for the tip on the HP 1012 as I was considering buying one.

Regards,
Bill Dika

Glad to have provided useful information on both counts. I'm just sorry it had to be bad news - I'd much rather have provided you with a solution instead.

As for the HP 1012, it's strange, I've had many HP printers and have considered them some of the best (and still do), but the 1012 just doesn't meet my expectations. Frankly, I'll probably have to replace it in a few months - and then find some poor Windows user to sell it to. (Yes, it's fine under windows, as are the D-link print servers.)

I just wanted to let you know that I got my DI-704UP print server working with the following configuration in Fedora Core 3.

Queue Name : lp
Queue Type : Networked Unix (LPD)
Server : 192.168.10.10 (this is the address of the DI-704UP on my network, probably 192.168.0.1 on other)
Queue : lp
The printer driver is the driver provided with the distribution for my HP Deskjet 932C.

I tried Hamsters advice on a DLINK DP-311U also werked.
with Mepis 3.3.1..and KDE 3.5..
Many thanks!
Jess

Following the same advice, I got my D-link wireless print server to work with Ubuntu 5.10.

I had used the add-printer wizard so I went to the printer properties and under the connections tab for the printer, I set:

Printer type: network printer, Unix printer LPD
Host: the address used, which I think in the default case was 192.168.1.10 (in my own case I used 192.168.1.110)
Queue: lp

Thanks for posting that information before. It paid off for me.

Roger

Hello:

I have tried all the configurations mentioned in this thread, but my print jobs still do not complete. Can someone who has Linux working with a DP-313 server post a copy of their printer.conf file?

Thank you.

sure here is the excerpt from my /etc/cups/printers.conf on ubuntu edgy (6.10) here, connecting via lpd (as per the suggestion earlier in this thread) to my dlink DP-313 . Couldn't get smb to work with this under any circumstances, (but had smb working fine with my previous trendnet wireless print server).

Anyways here it is, you might also want to try using the ip address of your print-server, I fixed mine to 192.168.1.10, BTW this config fragment was auto generated by the printing gui configuration application (under System -> Administration -> Printing) in gnome 2.16.1

<Printer PhotoSmart-7760>
Info PhotoSmart-7760
DeviceURI lpd://192.168.1.10/
State Idle
StateTime 1167278023
Accepting Yes
Shared Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy stop-printer
</Printer>

I made some minor changes in my /etc/cups/printers.conf file to model yours and still not working. No errors, nothing coming out.

Any other ideas?