We've been talking about a wireless connection up to now but you say "G5 box is not presently connected to the network, but that can be changed".
Is the building Cat5 wired? If so, without connecting the G5 to the network you could still extend the USB connection over Cat5.
Search the web for "USB extender". There are products like the one I've attached, see pdf. (and sorry for the advertisement guys - provided as an example only).
With a product like this you can extend your USB cable over a Cat5 cable by tapping into a RJ45 wall point near your G5, and onward connecting the cable from the wiring closet, to another wall point near the printer.
I don't know of any USB over wifi extenders but that doesn't mean that they don't exist.
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Having a problem getting the Orinoco silver
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By default I use all gnome stuff (gdm+metacity+...) and my connection works well.
I wanted to try fluxbox. So I've just changed my window manger. And under fluxbox, wireless isn't managed automatically like with gnome.
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urtw
URTW(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual URTW(4)NAME
urtw -- Realtek RTL8187B/L USB IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network device
SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:
device ehci
device uhci
device ohci
device usb
device urtw
device wlan
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):
if_urtw_load="YES"
DESCRIPTION
The urtw driver supports USB 802.11b/g wireless adapters based on the Realtek RTL8187B/L.
urtw supports station and monitor mode operation. Only one virtual interface may be configured at any time. For more information on config-
uring this device, see ifconfig(8).
HARDWARE
The urtw driver supports Realtek RTL8187B/L based wireless network devices, including:
Card Radio Bus
Belkin F5D7050E RTL8225 USB
Linksys WUSB54GCv2 RTL8225 USB
Netgear WG111v2 RTL8225 USB
Netgear WG111v3 RTL8225 USB
Safehome WLG-1500SMA5 RTL8225 USB
Shuttle XPC Accessory PN20 RTL8225 USB
Sitecom WL168v1 RTL8225 USB
Sitecom WL168v4 RTL8225 USB
SureCom EP-9001-g(2A) RTL8225 USB
TRENDnet TEW-424UB V3.xR RTL8225 USB
EXAMPLES
Join an existing BSS network (i.e., connect to an access point):
ifconfig wlan create wlandev urtw0 inet 192.168.0.20
netmask 0xffffff00
Join a specific BSS network with network name ``my_net'':
ifconfig wlan create wlandev urtw0 ssid my_net up
Join a specific BSS network with 64-bit WEP encryption:
ifconfig wlan create wlandev urtw0 ssid my_net
wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 weptxkey 1 up
SEE ALSO intro(4), netintro(4), usb(4), wlan(4), wlan_ccmp(4), wlan_tkip(4), wlan_wep(4), ifconfig(8), wpa_supplicant(8)
Realtek, http://www.realtek.com.tw.
HISTORY
The urtw device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 8.0.
AUTHORS
The urtw driver was written by Weongyo Jeong <weongyo@FreeBSD.org>.
BSD October 17, 2009 BSD