From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 2 1:17:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.networkiowa.com (ns1.networkiowa.com [209.234.64.192]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23B2537B51A; Sun, 2 Apr 2000 01:17:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from johnl@raccoon.com) Received: from raccoon.com (dsl.72.145.networkiowa.com [209.234.72.145]) by ns1.networkiowa.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA14991; Sun, 2 Apr 2000 04:20:21 -0500 Message-ID: <38E71022.1BC1943E@raccoon.com> Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2000 04:17:22 -0500 From: John Lengeling X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeremiah Gowdy Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: JetDirect 500X and FreeBSD References: <004a01bf9b35$0cc56be0$0100000a@vista1.sdca.home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message