Re: Help?

James Zuelow wrote:

>On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:33:10 -0700
>Matthew Dunaway <fert@eagle.ptialaska.net> wrote:
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>>Hello,
>>I am trying to get my stupid Laserjet 1000 printer to work.
>>I found a website that explains how to get it to work but I first have to download the firmware for it.
>>How do I execute the following?
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>>./getweb 1000 # Get HP LJ1000 firmware file
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>>I don't have the slightest idea what this is or how it's supposed to work. Any ideas??
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>It looks like they expect you to have a copy of "getweb" in the directory you're in - did you download a tarball or something? I found this link:
>http://www.linuxprinting.org/pipermail/macosx-list/2003q2/000566.html
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>that talks about the getweb script - which looks like it downloads the firmware from hp, and then you send it to the printer. If you're running RedHat or SuSE, I'd just get the HP web jetadmin package and update the firmware that way.
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>http://www.hp.com/go/webjetadmin
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>Cheers,
>
>James
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The download link from the hp site is broken. Figures.
I found a website where I can download the firmware, but I have to
download the whole 12MB file just to get 112kb from it. :-(
Maybe I should just get another printer. :-)
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Received on Thu Jul 29 14:16:44 2004