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.
Hi
Having a problem getting the Orinoco silver
to work on Redhat 7.3. (new full install)
On install it worked - sometimes - but I had to manually set the default gateway to the wireless instead of the 10/100 ethernet card.
Most often I had to restart pcmcia to get it going properly.
Now its... (4 Replies)
Hi There
What causes the remote printers on unix to loose its connections to the Unix server Sco 6 Version 7
When pinging the print server from unix is comes up with host not connected, but after a few moments the ping reply is positive
Then we do a disable and enable of the said printer... (0 Replies)
Hello
Let me first give a small overview of the setup. All printers are connected to Windows 2000 servers. There are a lot of UNIX (AIX & HP-UX) servers as well which have SAP running.
I'm working on a script to add printers to a specified SAP instance. I want to verify the user input (to... (0 Replies)
Hi everyone,
I am hoping anyone of you could help me in this weird problem we have in 1 of our Solaris 10 servers. Lately, we have been having some ftp problems in this server. Though it can ping any server within the network, it seems that it can only ftp to a select few. For most servers, the... (4 Replies)
Hi,
Is it possible to find the printer location and printer type (whether it is local or network) using command in Linux ?
Thanks in advance. (1 Reply)
Hi,
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.
So I tried to set it up manually ... but I can't make my wireless... (0 Replies)
Hello,
Please help me because I'm stuck.
I am using Fedora 16 on my notebook Fujitsu A6025. It was working fine for days and then suddenly I lost wireless connection , I can't enable 'ON' option in Network configuration (it looks like disabled) and I don't see any wireless network around me (... (10 Replies)
Hi everyone,
I am new to linux. I have installed ubuntu and I am booting together with window. But I have a problem of wireless connection in ubuntu.
If I start booting using ubuntu no wireless networks become available. If I first open window and restart it and open ubuntu then only I can get... (2 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT REDHAT
wireless
WIRELESS(7) Linux Programmer's Manual WIRELESS(7)NAME
wireless - Wireless Tools and Wireless Extensions
SYNOPSIS
iwconfig
iwpriv -a
DESCRIPTION
The Wireless Extensions is an API allowing you manipulate Wireless LAN networking interfaces. It is composed of a variety of tools and
configuration files. It is documented in more details in the Linux Wireless LAN Howto.
The Wireless Tools are use to change configuration on the fly, to get statistics and diagnose those interfaces. They are described in their
own man page (see below).
Wireless configuration is specific to each Linux distribution. This man page will contain in the future the configuration procedure for a
few common distributions (when I get the necessary info from them). For the time being, check the various files included with the Wireless
Tools package.
DEBIAN 3.0
Debian 3.0 (and later) has integrated wireless configuration in their network scripts.
File : /etc/network/interfaces
Form : wireless_<function> <value>
wireless_essid Home
wireless_mode ad_hoc
See also :
/etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless-tool
/usr/share/doc/wireless.##/README.Debian
ORIGINAL PCMCIA SCRIPTS
If you are using the original configuration scripts from the Pcmcia package, you can use this method.
File : /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts
Form : *,*,*,*)
ESSID="MY_ESSID"
MODE="Managed"
;;
See also :
/etc/pcmcia/wireless
File PCMCIA.txt part of Wireless Tools package
AUTHOR
Jean Tourrilhes - jt@hpl.hp.com
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/
SEE ALSO iwconfig(8), iwlist(8), iwspy(8), iwpriv(8), iwevent(8).
net-tools 12 July 2002 WIRELESS(7)