Re: Printing through a Wifi repeater on a LAN printer using CUPS

2020-03-06 Thread George N. White III
On Fri, 6 Mar 2020 at 04:17, Frederic Muller wrote: > On 3/6/20 12:54 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > According to that document, I think what you really want is client > > mode. That should make anything connected to the ethernet port be > > part of your regular network. The device connects to your

Re: Printing through a Wifi repeater on a LAN printer using CUPS

2020-03-06 Thread Frederic Muller
On 3/6/20 12:54 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > According to that document, I think what you really want is client > mode.  That should make anything connected to the ethernet port be > part of your regular network.  The device connects to your main wifi > router and shares the connection over the etherne

Re: Printing through a Wifi repeater on a LAN printer using CUPS

2020-03-05 Thread Frederic Muller
On 3/6/20 12:54 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 3/4/20 2:19 AM, Tim via users wrote: >> On Wed, 2020-03-04 at 12:30 +0700, Frederic Muller wrote: >>> it's a PIXLINK LV-WR09 300Mbps Wireless-N Repeater/Router/AP >> >> Looking at this: >> http://pmod1b8a3.pic8.websiteonline.cn/upload/WR09QuickInstallatio

Re: Printing through a Wifi repeater on a LAN printer using CUPS

2020-03-05 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/4/20 2:19 AM, Tim via users wrote: On Wed, 2020-03-04 at 12:30 +0700, Frederic Muller wrote: it's a PIXLINK LV-WR09 300Mbps Wireless-N Repeater/Router/AP Looking at this: http://pmod1b8a3.pic8.websiteonline.cn/upload/WR09QuickInstallationGuide.pdf It looks like it should support the mode

Re: Printing through a Wifi repeater on a LAN printer using CUPS

2020-03-05 Thread Frederic Muller
On 3/5/20 7:49 PM, George N. White III wrote: > These are all devices that need outbound access, but do not offer network  > services.    wow.. I'm feeling like I got cheated now. I have a spare (or 2) wifi router. I'll see if I can set it up in a similar way then. The thing takes a lot more space

Re: Printing through a Wifi repeater on a LAN printer using CUPS

2020-03-05 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2020-03-05 at 08:49 -0400, George N. White III wrote: > From the manual: > > "LAN Port: One 10/100Mbps RJ45 Ethernet port used to add wireless > connectivity to an Ethernet-enabled device such as Internet TV, DVR, > Gaming console and so on. Please note that this port is not allowed > to

Re: Printing through a Wifi repeater on a LAN printer using CUPS

2020-03-05 Thread George N. White III
On Thu, 5 Mar 2020 at 04:17, Frederic Muller wrote: > On 3/5/20 3:05 PM, Frederic Muller wrote: > > On 3/5/20 2:55 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 03/05/2020 12:41 AM, Frederic Muller wrote: > > So obviously I have 2 issues: > - routing to other subnet doesn't seem to work > - "network" printer doesn'

Re: Printing through a Wifi repeater on a LAN printer using CUPS

2020-03-05 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/05/2020 01:16 AM, Frederic Muller wrote: So now I'm back to my routing issue :-D Great! It's always best to break things like this down into separate issues and fix them one at a time and in this case, your router issue didn't matter until you had the printer working locally. ___

Re: Printing through a Wifi repeater on a LAN printer using CUPS

2020-03-05 Thread Frederic Muller
On 3/5/20 3:05 PM, Frederic Muller wrote: > On 3/5/20 2:55 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 03/05/2020 12:41 AM, Frederic Muller wrote: >>> So obviously I have 2 issues: >>> - routing to other subnet doesn't seem to work >>> - "network" printer doesn't seem to work as such >> >> Three questions: >> >> Fir

Re: Printing through a Wifi repeater on a LAN printer using CUPS

2020-03-05 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/05/2020 01:05 AM, Frederic Muller wrote: So I'm going to temporary move the printer to the main switch, change the ethernet cable and see if that works... then let you know. Try changing the cable first and don't worry about printing from the other subnet until you can get it printing

Re: Printing through a Wifi repeater on a LAN printer using CUPS

2020-03-05 Thread Frederic Muller
On 3/5/20 2:55 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 03/05/2020 12:41 AM, Frederic Muller wrote: >> So obviously I have 2 issues: >> - routing to other subnet doesn't seem to work >> - "network" printer doesn't seem to work as such > > Three questions: > > First, can you ping the printer from a box on the same

Re: Printing through a Wifi repeater on a LAN printer using CUPS

2020-03-04 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/05/2020 12:41 AM, Frederic Muller wrote: So obviously I have 2 issues: - routing to other subnet doesn't seem to work - "network" printer doesn't seem to work as such Three questions: First, can you ping the printer from a box on the same subnet? Second, if so, can you print from that bo

Re: Printing through a Wifi repeater on a LAN printer using CUPS

2020-03-04 Thread Frederic Muller
On 3/4/20 7:31 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 2020-03-04 19:54, Frederic Muller wrote: >> On 3/4/20 6:09 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: The repeater IP is currently dynamic (I can probably set it as fixed) and falls randomly between 100 to 190, which would be the gateway to access the printer. An

Re: Printing through a Wifi repeater on a LAN printer using CUPS

2020-03-04 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2020-03-04 at 17:30 +0700, Frederic Muller wrote: > Oh yes it supports the mod that I want, except that I am failing to > connect to the printer probably because of IP routing issues. I was > in fact expecting the LAN port to connect to the same subnet as if it > was a Wifi connection to th

Re: Printing through a Wifi repeater on a LAN printer using CUPS

2020-03-04 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-03-04 19:54, Frederic Muller wrote: > On 3/4/20 6:09 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> The repeater IP is currently dynamic (I can probably set it as fixed) >>> and falls randomly between 100 to 190, which would be the gateway to >>> access the printer. And that's where my routing knowledge tells m

Re: Printing through a Wifi repeater on a LAN printer using CUPS

2020-03-04 Thread Frederic Muller
On 3/4/20 6:45 PM, George N. White III wrote: > I assume you are using WISP mode.  Ok i wasn't clear about WISP mode and my first search didn't return what I found now. So no, I am using repeater mode but maybe I should dig into that WISP mode in fact. > The above document is short on  > detail, bu

Re: Printing through a Wifi repeater on a LAN printer using CUPS

2020-03-04 Thread Frederic Muller
On 3/4/20 6:09 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> The repeater IP is currently dynamic (I can probably set it as fixed) >> and falls randomly between 100 to 190, which would be the gateway to >> access the printer. And that's where my routing knowledge tells me there >> is a problem. > So, your system is on

Re: Printing through a Wifi repeater on a LAN printer using CUPS

2020-03-04 Thread George N. White III
On Wed, 4 Mar 2020 at 06:34, Frederic Muller wrote: > On 3/4/20 5:19 PM, Tim via users wrote: > > On Wed, 2020-03-04 at 12:30 +0700, Frederic Muller wrote: > >> it's a PIXLINK LV-WR09 300Mbps Wireless-N Repeater/Router/AP > > Looking at this: > > > http://pmod1b8a3.pic8.websiteonline.cn/upload/WR

Re: Printing through a Wifi repeater on a LAN printer using CUPS

2020-03-04 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-03-04 18:30, Frederic Muller wrote: > On 3/4/20 5:19 PM, Tim via users wrote: >> On Wed, 2020-03-04 at 12:30 +0700, Frederic Muller wrote: >>> it's a PIXLINK LV-WR09 300Mbps Wireless-N Repeater/Router/AP >> Looking at this: >> http://pmod1b8a3.pic8.websiteonline.cn/upload/WR09QuickInstalla

Re: Printing through a Wifi repeater on a LAN printer using CUPS

2020-03-04 Thread Frederic Muller
On 3/4/20 5:19 PM, Tim via users wrote: > On Wed, 2020-03-04 at 12:30 +0700, Frederic Muller wrote: >> it's a PIXLINK LV-WR09 300Mbps Wireless-N Repeater/Router/AP > Looking at this: > http://pmod1b8a3.pic8.websiteonline.cn/upload/WR09QuickInstallationGuide.pdf > > It looks like it should support

Re: Printing through a Wifi repeater on a LAN printer using CUPS

2020-03-04 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2020-03-04 at 12:30 +0700, Frederic Muller wrote: > it's a PIXLINK LV-WR09 300Mbps Wireless-N Repeater/Router/AP Looking at this: http://pmod1b8a3.pic8.websiteonline.cn/upload/WR09QuickInstallationGuide.pdf It looks like it should support the mode you want. Try using it as an access poi

Re: Printing through a Wifi repeater on a LAN printer using CUPS

2020-03-03 Thread Frederic Muller
On 3/4/20 12:24 PM, Tim via users wrote: > On Wed, 2020-03-04 at 11:45 +0700, Frederic Muller wrote: >> I then bought an inexpensive Wi-Fi Repeater/Router with 2 Ethernet >> ports (I guess 1 WAN, 1 LAN), thinking I could connect a cable from >> the LAN port and to the Wifi using that device allowin

Re: Printing through a Wifi repeater on a LAN printer using CUPS

2020-03-03 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2020-03-04 at 11:45 +0700, Frederic Muller wrote: > I then bought an inexpensive Wi-Fi Repeater/Router with 2 Ethernet > ports (I guess 1 WAN, 1 LAN), thinking I could connect a cable from > the LAN port and to the Wifi using that device allowing me to share > that printer over my network.