Printer via TrendNet not working SOLVED

[dougmack]

I just setup a TrendNet TE100-P21 network print server unit, and it prints via Ethernet to HP 2200 from Windows 7, and the KDE  "Configure Your printer" sees the server, (Server Name: PS-7308D0) but when I try to send a test page to the printer (twice),  and open the print status window, it says job 156, user root Printer (fisrt line blank,) second line LaserJet; Time submitted (both) 36 minutes ago; Status (first line:) Pending; (Second line:) Processing.  Printing troubleshooter syas "The printer's state message is 'Connected to printer...' Printing troublshooter tiries to print test page--no go. Status message: "The printer's state message is 'Remote host did not accept data file (32). There are a blue million
messages in the error log and another whole slew in the Diagnostic Output (Advanced.)

The printout I got from Windows reads as follows:  Server name: PS-7308D0; Server Model: TE100-P21; Hardware Version B1; Firmware Version: 3.25;
MAC address: 00 14 D1 73 08 D0 ; IP Address: 192.168.0.1; subnet mask: 255.255.255.0; Default Gateway: 0.0.0.0; Port Name: PS-7308D0-U1, PS-7308D0-U2, PS-7309D0-P3.
(The ports are, respectively USB1, USB2 and Parallel port.)

This computer prints over the Ethernet to an Epson 4530 All-In-One Ink-jet.  FWIW, the Windows machine, at least at present, does not; it needs a USB hard wire.

The HP Device Manager does not see the printer or the server at all.  It does see an HP970Cse which is hard wired to this computer. It does not see the Epson, which is perhpaps
to be expected.

Thank you for looking--doug

[old_guy]

dougmack

See:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/i-do-i-install-a-trendnet-te100-p21-652639/

Check post #5 from fgonzalezmx

Hope it helps

Earl

[dougmack]

I did a search on "fgonzalezmx" and the only hit was the name in the file you just sent.  If I search the name in Google I get a whole batch of hits in Spanish, which I
don't read.
 
Since my original post, I have looked in Google, and found a couple of things, but no cigar.  As per one of them, I changed the IP address to 192.168.1.5, and now I can
ping that ip from Linux, _but not from Windows_.  In both cases I can sporadically get a test page to print from either system, but never can I get anything to print from
an application.  Tried to get help from TrendNet, but their site was down--will try again, altho one of the Google sources says they refuse to help with Linux, even tho
they advertize as being Linux compatible. 

--doug

[dougmack]

Replying to my own post: Everything is now working.  I had to go back and read the (rest of) the directions to get Windows
working.  Then in Linux, when I set up the printer in Control Center, the automatic configurer set the wrong device port in the
IDNS input--it set P3 (parallel port) instead of U1 (first usb port).  It took me a while to notice what was going on here.
Hope I haven't distracted too many folks with this question.

Thanx for the input.  Some of it set me to looking on the internet for some guidance, and that guidance had me change the
IP address of the print server to a number that Linux could ping.  I don't know now if that was necessary, but I'm not going to go back and change it back to the default, not with everything working!

All's well that ends well--doug

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