NETGEAR WNR2200 Router Transformation print server

NETGEAR WNR2200 Router Transformation Print server

Check it out first. WNR2200 , it's pretty.

The office printer bought the wrong one, originally wanted to support network services, the results Canon MF47 52 is a printer fax machine that does not support the network function of the USB connection. Just the office has a WNR2200 route is idle, there is a USB port, there are related materials on the web can be traced to IT support brush third-party firmware can be when the print server.

It is said that dd-wrt and tomato also have to toss much, WNR2200 itself is a simplified version of the open-wrt, so I chose open-wrt.

Search from the Internet, in order to brush two files into.

NETGEAR WNR2200

Openwrt-ar71xx-generic-wnr2200-squashfs-factory.img

Openwrt-ar71xx-generic-wnr2200-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin this should be a package class, but the original routing system has protection, do not recognize third-party files, so first brush into openwrt-ar71xx-generic-wnr2200-squashfs-factory.img re-install the software.

Once again into the route, there is already a print server.

Put the printer on the road by the USB port.

After installation, you can connect to the printer, enter SSH (using the Putty software to log in to the command line of the router), type

DMESG | grep printer, if you return a similar statement like this, OK:

USBLP0:USB bidirectional Printer Dev 3 if 1 alt 0 Proto 2 vid 0x03f0 pid 0x7611

Note Usblp0 This is the path of the USB printer, directly written into the device there, Usblp0 is/dev/usb/lp0.

After the above, but also to do a key thing, this route when the print server, the other computer to be able to access, and, it can not have DHCP and other routing functions. Turn those all off.

What I tried here was I couldn't access it at the LAN port, so I used a WAN port and bridged it.

In this way, the network cable is plugged directly into the WAN port where the print server is connected from the switch. Set the WAN port to the IP address of a static LAN segment.

Ping, it's through.

The next step is to install the network printer.

The final finish is OK. Print the test page, no problem. Everything OK.