--On Thursday, April 25, 2002 16:27 -0700 Marshall Rose 
<mrose@dbc.mtview.ca.us> wrote:

> would anyone care to recommend a good ethernet-based print server for a
> netbsd client?

I snagged a HP 500x on eBay recently that works fine for me. I had mixed 
success with an Axis server some time back. (The problem was configuration 
from some Wind-Owes boxes; never tried it with NetBSD, but I need something 
that works smoothly for Wind-Owes, too....)

> i don't want to screw around trying to attach a printer to the hardware
> that i'm running netbsd on, so i'd just like something that i can lpr to.

My motivations were the same (printer and old h/w aggravations). I also 
wanted to fiddle w/ CUPS and ipp. I'm now using two non-PS printers via 
CUPS and the socket://server:910x mechanism with no problems.

> support for 802.11b instead-of/in-addition-to ethernet is a plus.

I have the 500x on the same lan segment as my 802.11b bridge, so 802.11 
support on the print server was not a requirment.

Cheers,
Mark