On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 15:56:30 +0100 Chris Green cl@isbd.net wrote:
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 02:23:56PM +0100, Chris Walker wrote:
Is there a dedicated Pi mailing list where I should ask this question or will this be ok here?
There's a Raspberry Pi newsgroup:-
comp.sys.raspberry-pi
Ta. Just taken a wander over to that. The standard of usenet hasn't improved since I last looked!
In view of my failing to set up my printer as a device off my router, I'm now thinking that I can use the same USB socket on the router to power a Pi which can then act as a print server for my printer.
The Pi needs quite a lot of power, more than a 'standard' USB socket is supposed to supply.
Oh. I've just read that the Pi itself takes around 300ma thus leaving a bit spare for other things. I don't imagine that a printer would take much power but of course I might well be wrong on that :-)