[Info-vax] HP JetDirect question

[H Vlems]

On Dec 31, 2:07 pm, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net>
wrote:
> 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.

Should I have written "pre-owned" :-), or is "second hand" bad
English ?
Anyway, the device came without a cdrom. The HP 2100 printer was given
to me, without documentation.
I fugured out how to print the configuration of the printer and
jetdirect card.
The only configuration tool available was a brrowser interface based
on Java. Very, very slow.
Hans