I had previously turned on all of my USB features in Services > USB
Core USB Support X Enable 0 Disable
USB 1.1 Support (UHCI) X Enable 0 Disable
USB 1.1 Support (OHCI) X Enable 0 Disable
USB 2.0 Support X Enable 0 Disable
USB Printer Support X Enable 0 Disable
USB Storage Support X Enable 0 Disable
ext2 / ext3 File System Support X Enable 0 Disable
FAT File System Support X Enable 0 Disable
Automatic Drive Mount X Enable 0 Disable
Run-on-mount Script Name
Disk Mount Point /mnt
Turn on SSH in your router Services > Services > Secure Shell
SSHd X Enable 0 Disable
SSH TCP Forwarding X Enable 0 Disable
Password Login X Enable 0 Disable
Port 22 (Default: 22)
In Administration > Management enable JFFS2 apply and reboot
JFFS2 X Enable 0 Disable
Clean JFFS2 X Enable 0 Disable
Verify the settings are correct upon reboot
JFFS2 under Administration > Management > JFFS2 Support will be different
It needs cleared and formatted only once, and the system changes these settings for you
JFFS2 X Enable 0 Disable
Clean JFFS2 0 Enable X Disable
Plug the USB cable of your printer into the router
Yeah that's all, you can do it!
Log In to your router via SSH
Your IP will likely be 192.168.1.1
If it isn't it can be found in the web interface at Setup > Basic Setup > Router IP and you should adjust the following instructions accordingly
brad@laptop:~$ ssh root@192.168.1.1
Release: 08/07/10 (SVN revision: 14896)
root@192.168.1.1's password: WEB GUI PASSWORD
Welcome to the Linux command line of DD-WRT courtesy of BusyBox
See if your printer is already hooked up and recognized -- mine wasn't
Bummer, the lsusb command is not available by default
root@DD-WRT:/# lsusb
-sh: lsusb: not found
Supposedly if the /dev/usb directory is empty you have to create the printer object
root@DD-WRT:/# mknod -m 660 /dev/usb/lp0 c 180 0
Verify that the daemon is not running -- mine was not running the daemon
I got this output
root@DD-WRT:~# ps | grep 910
4964 root 1532 S grep 910
Hopefully you will get output like this and you get to skip a few steps.
root@DD-WRT:~# ps | grep 910
980 root 1108 S /jffs/usr/sbin/p9100d
4964 root 1532 S grep 910
Download and install the package for USB printing
root@DD-WRT:/jffs# wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/brcm-2.4/packages/p910nd_0.93-1_brcm-2.4.ipk
No longer available, 'boo' to openwrt.org for breaking their resource links... *Note to self* the new file is on my file server here for me. --Because you cannot count on things to persist on the web.
root@DD-WRT:/jffs# wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/brcm47xx/packages/p910nd_0.95-2_brcm47xx.ipk
root@DD-WRT:/jffs# ipkg p910nd_0.95-2_brcm47xx.ipk
root@DD-WRT:/jffs# ipkg update
This is where I encountered my first error as OpenWRT no longer hosts the updates for the packages of my router firmware.
root@DD-WRT:/jffs#wget http://www.bradchesney.net/downloads/p910nd_0.95-1_brcm-2.4.ipk -O - | tr -d '\r' > /tmp/p910nd_0.95-1_brcm-2.4.ipk
root@DD-WRT:/jffs#cp /tmp/p910nd_0.95-1_brcm-2.4.ipk /jffs
root@DD-WRT:/jffs#cd /jffs
root@DD-WRT:/jffs#ipkg install p910nd_0.95-1_brcm-2.4.ipk
And this is where the game stopped for me. Sadness. Maybe I will dig into the files and fix the errors, but I am a busy guy lately.
Recommended method to start the daemon-- didn't work for me
root@DD-WRT:/jffs# /jffs/etc/init.d/p910nd start
Alternatively start the daemon this way
root@DD-WRT:/jffs# /jffs/usr/sbin/p910nd
Copy these lines:
/bin/mknod -m 660 /dev/usb/lp0 c 180 0
/bin/mkdir -m 755 -p /dev/usb
/jffs/usr/sbin/p910nd -b -f /dev/usb/lp0 0
into the Administration > Commands > Command Shell then click the Save Startup button and reboot
Accessing the printer from a computer
The IP will likely be 192.168.1.1 on port 9100 according to my instructions
That is 192.168.1.1:9100 depending on how you are entering your settings
