Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 19:44:19 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Andrzej Wojtaszek <awojtasz@trinity.com.pl> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to install printer on HP JetDirect Message-ID: <199802100144.TAA01014@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> of "Sun, 08 Feb 1998 21:56:51 PST." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980208215630.24904R-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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> On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Andrzej Wojtaszek wrote: > > > How to install printer on HP JetDirect for FreeBSD. J have no application > > for administration from FreeBSD. > > See http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/printing.html > > You can admin the JetDirect by telnetting to it. Only after it has discovered its IP address. See the man page for rarpd(8). Basically you associate the raw ethernet address with a hostname in /etc/ethers (see ethers(5)), and the hostname with an IP address in /etc/hosts. Was thinking on SGI Irix systems rarpd is started by inetd. But then again, I enable it with the chkconfig utility so rarpd is probably not in inetd. Must be a good reason for it not to be started by inetd. Its not in FreeBSD's /etc/inetd.conf. The man page doesn't say anything about putting it in inetd.conf either. Come to think of it, I can'd find an arp port, or rarp port. Maybe that's why inetd can't start rarpd? You may wish to only start rarpd once, long enough for the JetDirect to discover its IP address. Then telnet in to it and touch up the netmask and save the IP address in NVRAM (I forget how to do this, it might save automatically) so rarpd is no longer needed. If the IP address is saved automatically in NVRAM then you need to clear the NVRAM if you need to clear the old IP address. Think you hold the JetDirect button down while applying power. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message
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