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  • networking a printer[anyone out there?]

    From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Thu Oct 17 21:53:23 2019


    The newsgroup seem to have gone really quiet, or my news provider is off
    line.

    So I'll do a little update\.
    I have a Billion modem router

    BiPAC 7800NXL

    and a printer scanner

    Brother MFC-9340CDW

    I thought I would connect the printer to the router and reduce the cable
    load on the computer.

    I used the USB socket on the router because it was easy to just shift
    the cable from the USB socket on the computer to the router/


    Of course it didn't work. Connecting the printer knocked out the
    computers Ethernet connection and reconfiguring the computer network
    through MCC failed.

    Unplugging the printer restored the ethernet link to the computer.

    So we have a conflict here.

    the next trick was to discover that the printer can be configured for
    wired LAN - of course it can! TCP/IP DHCP all auto.

    I thought the printer will be assigned an address, DHCP from the router.

    Didn't work either.

    My next trick will be to get a real Ethernet cable dump USB and try again.

    And if Bits is lurking I can now dual boot MGA6 and MGA7.
    But I have yet to rsync a backup of MGA7 to the spare partition


    An interesting week

    Regards


    --
    faeychild
    Running plasmashell 5.15.4 on 5.2.13-desktop-2.mga7 kernel.
    Mageia release 7 (Official) for x86_64 installed via Mageia-7-x86_64-DVD.iso


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  • From Bit Twister@2:250/1 to All on Fri Oct 18 00:30:09 2019
    On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 07:53:23 +1100, faeychild wrote:


    The newsgroup seem to have gone really quiet, or my news provider is off line.

    Yes, Mageia software is pretty solid, Mageia users seem to be getting
    smarter at not mucking around with the system, so it has been quiet.


    So I'll do a little update\.
    I have a Billion modem router

    BiPAC 7800NXL

    and a printer scanner

    Brother MFC-9340CDW

    I thought I would connect the printer to the router and reduce the cable
    load on the computer.

    Yep, I have my Brother HL-L2380DW usb connected for scanning, and
    Ethernet connected to my t0 port switch for networking printing.


    the next trick was to discover that the printer can be configured for
    wired LAN - of course it can! TCP/IP DHCP all auto.

    My router does dhcp, but I assign static ipv4 addresses to all devices
    where possible. I leave the first 10 ip addresses free for guests and
    whatnot.


    I thought the printer will be assigned an address, DHCP from the router.

    Didn't work either. I can only guess you punched in a bad address at
    the printer, or router blocked the assignment.

    My next trick will be to get a real Ethernet cable dump USB and try again.

    Ok, that makes more sense, about your dhcp problem.

    And if Bits is lurking I can now dual boot MGA6 and MGA7.

    Good. That will allow you to boot mga6, and have a script to backup mga7.

    But I have yet to rsync a backup of MGA7 to the spare partition


    Do remember, you have setup your system as EFI and not legacy OS boot.
    That means, you should also backup your efi partition.


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  • From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Fri Oct 18 04:03:45 2019
    On 18/10/19 10:30 am, Bit Twister wrote:

    But I have yet to rsync a backup of MGA7 to the spare partition


    Do remember, you have setup your system as EFI and not legacy OS boot.
    That means, you should also backup your efi partition.


    Ah yes That one would have gotten past me..

    regards
    --
    faeychild
    Running plasmashell 5.15.4 on 5.2.13-desktop-2.mga7 kernel.
    Mageia release 7 (Official) for x86_64 installed via Mageia-7-x86_64-DVD.iso


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    * Origin: A noiseless patient Spider (2:250/1@fidonet)
  • From Doug Laidlaw@2:250/1 to All on Sat Oct 26 17:43:30 2019
    On 18/10/19 7:53 am, faeychild wrote:
    I thought I would connect the printer to the router and reduce the cable load on the computer.

    I used the USB socket on the router because it was easy to just shift
    the cable from the USB socket on the computer to the router/

    The USB socket on my NBN router is for attaching a device to record to.
    It cannot be used for networking.

    I have a Brother printer. For wi-fi, I configure the printer to have a
    fixed address:192.168.1.236. I have forgotten why I chose it, but there
    was a recommendation from somewhere. It has always worked. You may need
    to look at port forwarding, but I never have. But I don't have a fully defined home network. The router is 192.168.1.1, and tablets or phones
    take the next available port number, except for this box, which is on
    200, and the printer.

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