Installing a USB-printer that's shared through my router.

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  1. Pilsener

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    The problem is this USB-printer that's shared through the built-in printer server in my router.

    How do I make this work for the Aspire One ?

    I have tried for 4 hours now, but still no result.
    The HP Device Manager - Printer Setup Wizard doesn't seem to find the printer at all.
    And I'm not quite sure if this printer has to be treated like a fully network printer at all-

    Well, time to sleep a little.

    Hoping to wake up to some good hints on this subject.

    This printer is already shared between 3 Windows machines (2 wired, 1 WLAN), so I know that all the hardware is working.
     
    Pilsener, Aug 21, 2008
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    You are trying to connect to the printer from Linux?
    Did HP provide linux software?
     
    Sid, Aug 22, 2008
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    HP had a link to an external page with Linux drivers:
    http://hplip.sourceforge.net/downloads.html

    However, the drivers didn't come in a version for Linpus.
    Tried some of the versions for other distributions, without luck.
     
    Pilsener, Aug 22, 2008
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