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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: HP JetDirect (2552A): Serious LPD bug Date: 6 Mar 1997 23:52:02 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 27 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5fnlb2$282@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5f0ou4$luc@chronicle.concentric.net> <5fa721$2j8@uriah.heep.sax.de> <331BE001.1760@irisa.fr> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.periphs.printers:60806 comp.sys.sun.admin:83102 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36709 Bertrand Decouty <Bertrand.Decouty@irisa.fr> wrote: > > The mess starts with HP using some sort of proprietary protocol that > > will cause the JetDirect to actually download the firmware. Hence, > > they are providing idiot-prove upgrade tools that apparently only > > idiots can use. > > I must be an "idiot" because i have issued in upgrading all of the > JetDirect cards we have here (HP3Si, HP4, HP5). > > So your comments are totally false. Sorry... As you can see from the other followups, they are obviously not _too_ far off. :) I don't ask you whether you've been using a Windows machine to upgrade your JetDirects... (Although i'll now transfer this job to the Windows section of our company. *grin*) At least from a Unix machine (where only two systems are supported at all), i'm sorry to say that i won't touch any of this Jet* software again volunteerely. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)