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Category: AVM

  • Chromebook – how to make use of the printer attached to my FRITZ!Box via USB cable

    How to set up the connection on the Chromebook:

    Print and scan > Printers > Add Printers to your profile > Add printer:

    Add a printer manually > Name: MAKER via fritz.box, Address: fritz.box:9100, Protocol: AppSocket (TCP/IP), URI: socket://fritz.box:9100 – Add! (in former times AVM told us to look for “HP JetDirect”.)

    Advanced printer configuration > Manufacturer: …, Model: … – Add!

    If the model you are searching for does not get shown yet, attach the printer directly via USB and set it up on the Chromebook. Via PnP the model and its (PPD) driver should be there and known now. Afterwards you can make use of this driver for reaching it through the network as well. You can also try go get the PPD file for your printer on the Internet. (It appears to me, the Chromebook expects a .ppd.gz .)

    How to print on the Chromebook:

    Destination: See more…

    Select a destination: MAKER via fritz.box

    More:

  • connecting to a FRITZ!Box via VPN à la Cisco IPSec

    Fo connecting to a FRITZ!Box via VPN à la Cisco IPsec the remote server (the FRITZ!Box) must have an IPv4 address (only) – if it also has an IPv6 address, connecting won’t work out. It took me quite some time this afternoon to figure this out.

    If the DNS resolution also delivers an IPv6 address, that seems to confuse the VPN client.

    2020-06-15 : “IPv6 + IPv4” (“Use native IPv6 connection” + “Establish IPv4 connection via DS Lite”) does not seem to be an obstacle defeating a VPN connection. I have no idea, why it did not work out before.

  • 1st things back in “freedom”

    “Freedom” means “after the crontract / job, that fed me for the last 1.75 years” – and actually payments for May and June are still due.

    Completed:

    • firmware-upgrading the FRITZ!Box 7490, that I had at work, there connected to the Internet via UMTS-USB-stick, now connected through the “hotel’s” LAN
    • ultimo 2014-06/07
    • communication with tax account
    • “enforced” firmware update of my home NAS – not successful (bad!)
    • incoming communication with son#2’s school teacher
    • catching up with my favourite sports accessories shop, that tried to call me yesterday – did they want to provide me with details regarding the Polar V800 introduction seminary?
    • http://hkw.de/de/programm/projekte/veranstaltung/p_102858.php – reserved tickets for the Saturday concert of Tulipa Ruiz
    • incoming electricity bill
    • coped with a Lexware Quicken banking software problem
    • requested SEPA creditor-IDs
    • ordering a fat Mac mini – with lots of RAM, SSD + HD, …
    • ordering a “Mobee Magic Feet” for the new Mac mini
    • installing Win8.1 into a VM on the MacBook – my MacBook Pro refuses to read that DVD / CD; have to create an ISO image …
    • acquired and installed PDFCreator Plus (Lifetime) for / on the Win8.1 VM
    • installing Lexware Quicken 2015 on the Win8.1 VM – my MacBook Pro refuses to read their CD; letting a Windows PC on my home LAN “share” the CD
    • “virtually incoming” natural gas bill – actually I have not seen any their paper bill this year so far, but I found a refund on my cash account, and I retrieved the PDF from their website

    Next:

    • picking up the “Mobee Magic Feet”
    • updating my CV
    • distributing my CV
    • looking for job positions at Xing
    • …

  • AVM – FRITZ!Fon MT-F

    AVM – FRITZ!Fon MT-F

    • It uses the FRITZ!Box phone book, that’s great.
    • It plays Internet radio, that’s also great.
    • It has a dedicated rechargeable battery.
    • It has a plug for an ear-phone or loudspeaker.
    • It can stand upright by itself.

  • AVM – FRITZ!Fon C3

    AVM – FRITZ!Fon C3

    • It uses the FRITZ!Box phone book, that’s great.
    • It plays Internet radio, that’s also great.
    • It has standard AAA size rechargeable batteries, that’s really great.
    • It does not have a plug for an ear-phone or loudspeaker, I miss that.
    • It needs the cradle to stand upright, and the sound for playing music is best, if it lies face-down or it stands upright.

  • FRITZ!Box 7390: a USB printer serving as network printer on a computer running Windows

    The instructions in the (German) user manual imply, that the printer was first properly attached to the computer itself. The user manual explains, how to change the settings of the printer configuration, so that you can make use of that printer, which is now attached to the FRITZ!Box.

    You can also install it as a network printer right away, but be patient and trust in the Windows set up wizzard.
    Let it retrieve the complete list of printers from the Internet, in case your printers are as ancient as mine!
    You won’t need to tell it, it’s port 9100, the Windows installation procedure takes just as long as it announced: several minutes.

  • perlfork – Perl’s fork emulation

    perlfork – Perl’s fork emulation

    Picked this up on twitter from a conversation between 2 rather well-known hard-core Rubyists (and both certainly former hard-core Perl Mongers):
    my mate James Edward Gray II (author of the Textmate book, author of the Ruby CSV library modules, renowned I18N guru, contributor to my FRITZ!Box call monitor, …) and Yehuda Katz (member of Engine Yard, Rails core contributor, …).

    SYNOPSIS

    Perl provides a fork() keyword that corresponds to the Unix system call of the same name. On most Unix-like platforms where the fork() system call is available, Perl’s fork() simply calls it.


    On some platforms such as Windows where the fork() system call is not available, Perl can be built to emulate fork() at the interpreter level. While the emulation is designed to be as compatible as possible with the real fork() at the the level of the Perl program, there are certain important differences that stem from the fact that all the pseudo child “processes” created this way live in the same real process as far as the operating system is concerned.


    This document provides a general overview of the capabilities and limitations of the fork() emulation. Note that the issues discussed here are not applicable to platforms where a real fork() is available and Perl has been configured to use it.

  • my Mac now connects through my UMTS USB modem

    I have been using my “XS Stick W12” from 4g-systems.com for almost a year on my EeePC running WinXP and also on my FRITZ!Box 7270.
    Now I can also make use of it on my Mac Book Pro. Splendid.
    Looks like 4g-systems.com now sell their current model (XS Stick W14) w/o branding and SIM-lock for EUR 100. Not bad, question is, whether the 7270 supports it.

  • my Mac now prints on the colour laser printer attached to the FRITZ!Box router

    The Samsung CLP-315 gets accessed via “HP JetDirect”. Yesterday I wasn’t able to set it up as network printer and let it find the driver on Samsung’s CD. Today I let Samsung’s printer installation routine set up a local printer (which isn’t actually installed), but at least the driver got installed somewhere on OS X, and then I could assign the right driver to the network printer configuration. Now I successfully printed my 1st page on my very own Mac.
    Alright, alright, I admit it: I vaguely remember already having successfully attached my ex’s (i.e. “-1”) Mac Mini (which isn’t officially hers …) my FRITZ!Box …, so I knew it would work sooner or later.
    Now this is really a nice CUPS printer set up underneath!!!
    I wished my openSuSE-11.1 computers would accept the CLP-315 driver as well!
    Until then I only create PDF-s on them and printed them via Windows or OS X.

    I really love this set up: the laser printer attached via USB to my 7270, acting as a network printer.

    AVM’s description on how to attach a printer to the 7270 through USB was actually very helpful:

    Update 2014-07-15:
    The vanilla Mac OS X on my 2014 Mac mini did not have the drivers for my Samsung printers available, even not after the 1st OS updates. After attaching one of them via USBn though (apparently) all the Samsung printer drivers got installed (supposedly via the network). Then installing them one way or the other as network printers worked.