Re: ancient help for a slug
On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:17:41 +0100
Richard Bown <richard@g8jvm.info> wrote:
> Hi Guys
> I'm trying to reduce my energy footprint here, and decide to rub the dust off an old NSLU2
> It did have Deb on it years ago when I got it, but nowhere did I write down the ssh passwords,
> so it was a reflash job.
> I just want to use it as a Cups server with just one printer on it.
> I see Debian 5 was too big for it, and there is a way of using Debian6 with an external USB HDD.
> which is a bit OTT for just a print server.
> In the end I flashed it with SlugOSBE, installed Cups, but it wouldn't run as it wanted a module
> printer.o
> Next attempt was to blow the dust off an old Tosh laptop P2, 233Mhz, it had Debian 6 on it now,
> runs slower than the NSLU2 and I still cant get in remotely on port 631, I removed SElinux incase
> that was blocking it, but running headless is awkward unless you know your way around Debian.
> So Plan C
> Find an earlier image of Debian 4 that I can flash the beast with an use the Slug as a print
> server. Can anyone assist with a late Debian 4 image , I've hunted and cant find one.
>
> Else its plan D . Throw both away and get something later like a RaspberryPI ( model B).
> I'd prefer to give the old junk a few years more life if possible
> Thanks
>
>
Plan C is a disaster the latency is so bad it prints one line and a 5 second gap between the next
so approaching plan D Fast !
What Arm based devices are fast enough and have enough RAM to use a good low power print server.
It needs to be able to send data fast enough to a USB printer so the printers buffer is used.
It only needs ethernet and USB ports as it will be used headless, but not expensive.
Thanks
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Best wishes / 73
Richard Bown
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