Help for Ubuntu 9.04 and HP printers.

[Chris Mohler]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 4:59 AM, Arun Shrimali<arun.reso at gmail.com> wrote:

> 1. Our user does not have the direct net access thus we can not run
> following command at client to install firmware as suggested
>
>           $ ./getweb 1018      # Get HP LaserJet 1018 firmware file
>
> 1.1 Can we have download the firmware and load through local server ?  How??

Maybe you can download and extract them manually?  eg -
http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/firmware/sihp1018.tar.gz - then copy on a USB
stick or CD.
Look into getweb.in for clues on the firmware locations and names.


> 3. Why  http://foo2hp.rkkda.com/  is clearly mentioning that  -   ***
> DON'T USE the foo2zjs package from: Ubuntu, SUSE, Mandrake/Manrivia,
> Debian, RedHat, Fedora, Gentoo, Xandros, EEE PC, Linpus, MacOSX, or
> BSD!   *** Download it here and follow the directions below. " ALL IN
> RED AND BOLD.

I have no idea.

Chris