Multiple printer support

[cholland]

For any user with an inkjet and laserjet it would be very usefull to have support for multiple printers (at least two). So the FB can be used as print server.

See also  http://www.ip-phone-forum.de/showpost.php?p=1075666&postcount=6 where the patch attached applies to ds-mod 26-15.2

I will try it for freetz-trunk.

[McNetic]

I think it would not make too much sense to port the patch to freetz, as it seems freetz will somewhere in the near future implement a new hotplug chain -  see here. Maybe this would ease the implementation of using different printers.

[itzy]

It appears there is nobody working on hotplug oder mdev these days. Maybe it's still worth porting the patch.

[Whoopie]

We already have multiple printer support, see r3550. What would be the benefit to also add this solution?

[Harry]

Okay, ticket 572 was closed, i try it again here )

I used this patch as basis for my patch, which has the following enhancements :

o working with laserjet 1300

(which has multple PROTOCOLS 1,2,3 , the routine finding the PROTO

couldn't handle this).

o storing of configuration, so the the printservers always have the same

port for the same (unique !) printer

Are you interested in this patch ?

[cinereous]

I closed the ticket for a very good reason. We already have a possibility to use more than on printer. And now i cite Whoopie with his post above:

We already have multiple printer support, see r3550. What would be the benefit to also add this solution?

And now something for my own: Where's the patch you used? You should attach it, and not tell something we can't follow.

[Harry]

No problem that you closed the ticket it was my fault.

r3550 is the patch i used first, but the following lines don't work for me (and my HP Laserjet 1300):

PROTOCOL=$(hexdump -s 34 -n 1 -e '1/1 "%02x"' $3) case $PROTOCOL in

01*|02*) # uni- and bidirectional

I'll submit my patch, it's only tested on my system.

Features

o Debug logging for testing purposes o automatic configuration via generated configfile o better way to find out PROTOCOL

(although i'm not satisfied with the way i did it)

o i separated the hotplug from the javascript-patch

so, now there are two patches ….

As i wrote in my first (deleted) ticket i'm not satisfied with output of all printers in printerstatus of AVM-Status-Pages..