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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.uoregon.edu!Symiserver2.symantec.com!news From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Jetdirect via *BSD Date: 14 Dec 1996 17:32:00 GMT Organization: Symantec Corp. Lines: 16 Message-ID: <58uoag$7q3@Symiserver2.symantec.com> References: <nGogtM2@quack.kfu.com> <58srlf$jti@uriah.heep.sax.de> Reply-To: tedm@agora.rdrop.com NNTP-Posting-Host: shiva2.central.com X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2.5 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32598 In <58srlf$jti@uriah.heep.sax.de>, j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: >nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) wrote: > >> HP Jetdirects are as varied as the printers they serve. One thing > >Hmm, why don't you talk lpd protocol directly to them? All the >JetDirect's i know of can do this. > The older JetDirect cards required a firmware upgrade to do this (downloadable from the HP web site) and some of these required a RAM upgrade to accept the firmware. If they download the HP Download manager and files from the HP web site and run it, the download manager will tell them if their card needs or can be upgraded.