On Dec 17, 2007, at 4:18 PM, Alex M wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I finally got some time for development.
>
> I wanna add ticket printing functionality for mono. Ex: Thermal  
> printer
> connected to mono box via RS232 (Serial Port). Customer comes to the
> business (Café or Office or whatever) the employee presses the  
> button on the
> thermal printer and mono prints the ticket with the Username and  
> Password
> that will be active for  x minutes. Same thing as you would get with  
> D-Link
> DSA3100 hotspots but implemented in mono.
>
>
>
> Now if you are interested I would appreciate some here:
>
> a)       I need to know if ppl want it as public release, and if u  
> do I will
> need some one to help me w/ coding (I cant do everything myself)
>
> b)       I need to find out how can I send (and receive) print  
> commands from
> RS232 under BSD
>
> c)       And we will have to do all the dity work that come as side  
> affect
> of having b) integrated in mono interface.

It seems like the better place to have the printer function would be  
adding/removing people from a radius server. I think that M0n0 already  
supports using Radius as an authentication backend in captive portal.



Steve