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penguinny
Oct 26, 2009Aspirant
HP printers firmware uploader
Someone suggested to re-post this here as a request for community add-on. Several inexpensive (=very common) laser printers from HP do not have firmware on board, these include HP LaserJet 1000, 10...
MoominDoogie
Apr 15, 2010Aspirant
Hi all,
Just wanted to say a big thank you to all who contributed to this fix and for saving what little remains of my sanity!
It was driving me nuts that the HP Photosmart worked fine but the Laserjet 1018 would only work after I'd plugged it into the PC's USB port then back into the ReadyNAS. Thanks to you I now have a fully working, networking, hotplugging HP Laserjet 1018.
Being a complete noob to ReadyNAS and knowing even less about Linux I found smask's guide a doddle to follow, once I'd figured out how to install the updates and where to get them from :roll:, perhaps some links to the EnableRootSSH and Apt add-ons would help others like me get there a little quicker?
Again, many thanks.
Moomin
Just wanted to say a big thank you to all who contributed to this fix and for saving what little remains of my sanity!
It was driving me nuts that the HP Photosmart worked fine but the Laserjet 1018 would only work after I'd plugged it into the PC's USB port then back into the ReadyNAS. Thanks to you I now have a fully working, networking, hotplugging HP Laserjet 1018.
Being a complete noob to ReadyNAS and knowing even less about Linux I found smask's guide a doddle to follow, once I'd figured out how to install the updates and where to get them from :roll:, perhaps some links to the EnableRootSSH and Apt add-ons would help others like me get there a little quicker?
Again, many thanks.
Moomin
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