I recently bought the TP-Link TL-WDR3600, a router I thought would be very fine as it has two USB ports to attach printers, scanners, external disks, whatever. My officemate told me of routers like this so I got curious.
\nI installed it first lika any simple router which worked quite well of course, but for some reason I did this within Windows 7. There I installed some special tool which seemed to be intended for helping getting a USB printer to work. Again this was quite easy and soon after, the first page came out of the printer.<\/p>\n
A bit later I rebooted into Linux (Ubuntu 12.04 at that moment). I just tried to attach the printer as a network printer thinking this was the way to go. But it wasn’t. On the net I found no howto or something similar, the TP-Link webpage also was quiet about that and their support hasn’t answered me yet (it’s six days ago, that I wrote them).<\/p>\n
What I found on their webpage was some GPL section where you can download the operating system of the router or at the least all the GPL parts of it. I chose the one for my router, unpacked it, and looked through the folder. See what I found: usbip. Promising, isn’t it?<\/p>\n
Googling for ‘usbip ubuntu’ is much more fun than googling for ‘linux wdr3600’.<\/p>\n
Let’s directly go to the result I started with: Actually page 2 is the interesting one with instructions for the client installation as the server was already setup. The steps I chose from the tutorial were the following: My router’s ip is 192.168.1.1, so the important step should be: WTF. I have to draw breath and rethink. Maybe I have one more look at the sources…<\/p>\n Ok, started with this one more look. Still a lot to learn about Linux and its available tools. THis is one of the main conclusions of this moment. But ok, I got to know busybox, this is fine, ok But enough self-doubt. What did I find? Someone, who is able to read, clearly has an advantage. There is one more usb-related app. It’s called kcodes_usbip. So there exist several ones. Fine. Who is kcodes? This<\/a> should be the corresponding webpage. I recently bought the TP-Link TL-WDR3600, a router I thought would be very fine as it has two USB ports to attach printers, scanners, external disks, whatever. My officemate told me of routers like this so I got curious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[6,7,38],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.knofafo.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.knofafo.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.knofafo.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.knofafo.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.knofafo.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.knofafo.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"https:\/\/blog.knofafo.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.knofafo.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.knofafo.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.knofafo.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nhttp:\/\/www.howtoforge.com\/how-to-set-up-a-usb-over-ip-server-and-client-with-ubuntu-10.04<\/a>
\nThe usbip project’s homepage is
\nhttp:\/\/usbip.sourceforge.net\/<\/a><\/p>\n
\nInstall usbip (rather simple):
\nsudo apt-get install usbip<\/code>
\nI went on with loading the Virtual Host Controller Interface
\nsudo modprobe vhci-hcd<\/code>
\nAnd checking the module loading:
\nlsmod | grep vhci<\/code>
\nyields:
\nvhci_hcd 22542 0
\nusbip_core 15904 1 vhci_hcd<\/code><\/p>\n
\nsudo usbip -l 192.168.1.1<\/code>
\nwhich results in:
\n- 192.168.1.1 failed<\/code><\/p>\nifconfig<\/code> is outdated, ip addr<\/code> is the way to go… I mean, I am something like a linux sysadmin for the members of my chair. Fortunately they never come with serious problems and I’m not involved in problems relevant for security.<\/p>\n
\nAs soon as the update of my Linux distribution is finished I will go on with this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"