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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
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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. ;-)