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Date:      Sun, 02 Apr 2000 04:17:22 -0500
From:      John Lengeling <johnl@raccoon.com>
To:        Jeremiah Gowdy <jgowdy@home.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: JetDirect 500X and FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <38E71022.1BC1943E@raccoon.com>
References:  <004a01bf9b35$0cc56be0$0100000a@vista1.sdca.home.com>

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Jeremiah Gowdy wrote:
> 
> Does anyone have any experiance or information about using HP JetDirect 500X
> Printer Hubs with FreeBSD ?  This is mission critical for my company, so any
> information greatly appriciated.

Ah...printers...my next to modems, my least favorite periphial to deal
with.

I have hooked up a lot of different printers to FreeBSD boxes and HP
JetDirect cards don't work as well since they only allow 1-2
simultanious network conections to the printer.  If you haven't
purchased them yet get an Axis print server box instead.  I highly
recommend them.  www.axis.com.

JetDirect cards work, just not was well as Axis cards.  It is also
important that you upgrade your jetdirect firmware to the latest rev if
this is an older card.  There are some bugs specific to their LPD
implimentation.  You can also turn off banner pages on the later
firmware code.

johnl


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