Centronics Printer Server - Edimax PS-1203M

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We try a very old Edimax Printer-server:


To be able to use my (good) old Canon LBP-660 laser printer:


http://www.avdcs.com/edimax/ps-1203m.html
http://www.certech.com.au/productimages ... sxx03x.pdf

Bad luck, it looks working correctly according LED status (see next link).
Only it does not accept my openWrt DHCP server? it has a physical link, but no ip ...
(Did i ever setup a static ip-address? I don't know anymore, and there's no reset button on this device.)

Some found sites have links in them to download software, but pitty anough too old and not functioning anymore.
http://www.edimax.us/html/Faq/FAQ_PSGENERAL.htm#q8

Board based on:
- RDC R1610
http://www.nordfield.com/downloads/data ... /R1610.pdf

- AT7601f Printer Port Controller:
http://www.digchip.com/datasheets/parts ... T7601F.php

- AM29LV040B, 4Mbit (512k x 8bit):
http://www.chipfind.ru/datasheet/pdf/amd/am29lv040b.pdf

- 512K x 16 Bits x 2 Banks (16-MBIT) SYNCHRONOUS DYNAMIC RAM:
http://pdf1.alldatasheet.com/datasheet- ... 00-7T.html

- ATMEL 302 93C86 SI27:
http://www.futurlec.com/Memory/93C86SMD.shtml

And, YES, we have it working again! Had indeed a static ip, now it DHCP (no DHCP server).



MAC: 00:00:B4:4A:2D:FF

DG.

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But now see if it will work with my Canon printer, as the status on the server is always: paper out ...



We go on testing

DG.

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Since we have access to the web-interface of the PS-1203M we also need more info aboutthe LBP-660 and its drivers ...
Difficult, as this printer did cam with driver software 4 Win98, maybe WinXP, but i found also:
driver 4 linux:
http://www.boichat.ch/nicolas/lbp660/

As we still have zero (0) output seen on the printer itself, we have to try the linux driver, i guess...
We have a WinXP machine which can 'see' the PS-1203M:


But the status there:


is most often different from the status seen in the web-interface:


Web-interface also looks kinda 1998 ... only 1 page.

Printing a test-page from the PS-1203M web-interface or from driver Properties settings, both don't print anything.
Changing the driver settings result in spooling 'hanging', or just spools and looses the print-job, without printing anything.
It stays a bit weird.

DG.

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And actually looking such far into this, because i needed 1 printout, LOL
Maybe i could better look 4 a USB to Centronics port, like:



Which are sold on eBay below $2 ...

DG.

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Okay, we leave this thread as is ...
As also the HDD in my old Windows XP machine broke down during its last backup, of course.
Wanted this machine as VM in my ESXi5.5 environment, but now i even better go back to the backup of my (older) laptop, which was thé printerserver for about 10 years ago

We also bought the $2 USB to Centronics port, which we can use when it arrives.
Printing from windows 8 or higher is not be possible, there's no driver available for these OS's, but another driver could be used when printing over a network (i red somewhere). Otherwise we have to make a new Linux machine with the LBP-660 linux driver and see how that works out.

Awaiting 4 the USB to Centronics port, we leave this thread as is (and we did already printed the 1 file we needed).

DG.

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Even tried connecting the LBP-660 to my first wlan-router, a ASUS WL-500g with parallel port.



Although it does 'see' the printer, printing seems impossible, as seen earlier. Saw a writing of myself from 2006/2007? But that was on the broken HDD. Maybe i'll try getting those old messages back (there is also another older backup ...)

What we do have, some logging from http:// [--IP of DEV--] /Main_AdmStatus_Content.asp

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cat /proc/cpuinfo
--
system type		        : Broadcom BCM4710 chip rev 0
processor		          : 0
cpu model		          : BCM4710 V0.0
BogoMIPS		           : 82.94
wait instruction	      : no
microsecond timers	    : yes
tlb_entries		        : 32
extra interrupt vector	: no
hardware watchpoint	   : no
VCED exceptions		    : not available
VCEI exceptions		    : not available
unaligned_instructions	: 1508
dcache hits		        : 2343231169
dcache misses		      : 16449319
icache hits		        : 1933341387
icache misses		      : 91140248
instructions		       : 2025298840
--

cat /proc/version
--
Linux version 2.4.20 (root@localhost.localdomain) (gcc version 3.2.3 with Broadcom modifications) #209 Fri Sep 2 09:43:21 CDT 2005
--

cat /proc/devices
--
Character devices:
  1 mem
  2 pty/m268496896
  3 pty/s268496896
  4 tts/268496896
  5 cua/268496896
  6 lp
 10 misc
 14 sound
 81 video_capture
 90 mtd
108 ppp
128 ptm
136 pts/268496896
162 raw
180 usb
253 nvram
254 gpio

Block devices:
 31 mtdblock
--

cat /proc/iomem
--
00000000-00ffffff : System RAM
  00001000-0017e0af : Kernel code
  00194000-001b0fff : Kernel data
18004000-18004fff : usb-ohci
--

cat /proc/interrupts
--
           CPU0       
  2:          0            MIPS  usb-ohci
  3:        835            MIPS  eth0
  4:       7144            MIPS  eth1
  6:      37836            MIPS  eth2
  7:      70562            MIPS  timer

ERR:          0
--

cat /proc/meminfo
--
        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
Mem:  14647296  9588736  5058560        0  1622016  3493888
Swap:        0        0        0
MemTotal:        14304 kB
MemFree:          4940 kB
MemShared:           0 kB
Buffers:          1584 kB
Cached:           3412 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:           2480 kB
Inactive:         3964 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:        14304 kB
LowFree:          4940 kB
SwapTotal:           0 kB
SwapFree:            0 kB
--

cat /proc/modules
--
videodev                5712   0 (unused)
audio                  49616   0 (unused)
soundcore               5056   0 [audio]
printer                11712   0 (unused)
lp                      8480   0
parport_splink          2736   1
parport                25456   1 [lp parport_splink]
usb-ohci               21568   0 (unused)
usbcore                77072   0 [audio printer usb-ohci]
ipt_NETMAP               768   2
ip_nat_starcraft        1984   0 (unused)
wl                    481920   0 (unused)
et                     27376   0 (unused)
--

So an option to build openWrt (2.6 kernel) with the mentioned Linux driver for the LBP-660 could be a nice sollution, but a lot of testing etc.
When the USB to Centronics arrives, we have 2 options:

• building Printserver on ASUS WL-500g
• building Printserver on Virtual XP or Linux machine.

DG.