[Info-vax] [OT] HP JetDirect question

[Richard B. Gilbert]

H Vlems wrote:
> This question is really off topic since it concerns a JetDirect 600N
> card (J3113A) for an HP 2100 Laserjet.
> Now this laserjet 2100 serves as a printer for my primary VMS system,
> so there is a faint connection....
> The 600N is a second hand unit and has an existing ip address on it
> (172.28.155.241/24). If I telnet to that address on port 9100 then the
> printer prints the text I typed in. So the interface is basically
> correct.
> However the web interface doesn't allow me to change the IP
> attributes. The error message in the browser is "device not
> connected". I suspect an SNMP or security attribute was set to prevent
> ordinary users to modify its set up.
> Is there a way to reset the card to factory default values?
> Hans

Did your "second hand" device come with a CDROM?  It has been at least 
eight years since I installed a JetDirect card in my LaserJet 4000. 
AIRC that CDROM contained software with a "click and drool" interface 
for configuring the printer/JetDirect card.  The disk has a "Unix" 
directory under which are the directories for various flavors of Unix. 
The printer serves my PC and my wife's PC, my Alphastation 200, three 
Solaris/SPARC boxes and a Linux system.

If you don't have the software, you could try to buy a disk from HP or 
maybe you can borrow one somewhere.