Re: Print Server
From: Robert Heller (heller_at_deepsoft.com)
Date: 07/22/04
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Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 21:49:17 +0200
Ming He <hepub@hotmail.com>,
In a message on Thu, 22 Jul 2004 16:20:03 GMT, wrote :
MH> Dave Brown <dhbrown@hobbes.dhbrown.net> writes:
MH>
MH> > In article <a6580801.0407200900.64d06c59@posting.google.com>, Mike wrote:
MH> >> I have an old laptop (Compaq Presario 1610 Pentium(r) 1.5G 32MB) that
MH> >> I would like to make into a print server. Currently the OS is Windows
MH> >> 95 but from what I understand it might be better if I go with Linux
MH> >> (version?), especially since I don't have the money or the desire to
MH> >> upgrade such and old pc. I however don't really know where to start.
MH> >> I know there is a lot of versions of Linux out there and due to my
MH> >> system specs whatever version I get will need to be small. Also my
MH> >> laptop does not have an integrated LAN card so I have two options
MH> >> here. I have a LAN card and a dongle or I have a Linksys wireless LAN
MH> >> card that I can use. My printer will have to be hooked up to this
MH> >> laptop through the LPT1 since it is not network capable. Basically I
MH> >> am looking for a place to start and any recommendations people might
MH> >> have.
MH> >
MH> > I'd probably set it up with RedHat 7.3. I still run 7.3 on several
MH> > machines. Whether you can get your wireless card working "depends";
MH> > wireless manufacturers are constantly changing the innards of their
MH> > products. Your wired-net card has a better chance of working.
MH> >
MH> > Still, it's an ambitious project, if you're new to Linux.
MH>
MH> It is not that ambitious. You just need to:
MH>
MH> 1. install redhat 7.3, or 8.0, or 9.0.
MH>
MH> 1.1 Decide if you want X windows or not. 32 MB will be very slow
MH> with X.
MH>
MH> 2. config TCP/IP. This is basic skill.
MH>
MH> 3. config CUPS. install printer driver. You have a choice of using GUI
MH> here. But it will be very slow. Then again you only need to do this once.
MH>
I have an *old* Dell Netplex box ('486 @ 66mhz) (saved from dumpster
'heaven' -- the previous owner was going to toss in in the 'trash')
with 32-meg of RAM and a 4gig SCSI disk as my print server. I run RH
6.1 on it. It has no keyboard, mouse, or monitor. It is a low-profile
type box -- like a slightly 'fat' pizza box chassis. It lives under my
(homemade) printer stand. I've configured it with a serial console
(wired via a null modem to a spare serial port on my desktop and run
minicom as a background job connected to virtual terminal #8). Did NOT
install the X server, but did install the base X libraries and some
useful X utilities (like xterm). Runs LPRng and is perfectly happy to
shove bits out either (or both) of its *two* parallel ports.
MH> /ming
MH>
MH>
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