Re: I forgot how I to setup an HP LaserJet 5si on the network. !!HELP!!

If it isn't set to DHCP... normally, if it has an internal NIC you can press
the button on the face of the card, on the back of the printer, and it will
print a config page. With that you could connect to it with a crossover
cable and your laptop... after you set the laptop to a static IP address on
the same subnet.
Also, I think you can hold that button in while you power on the printer,
and it will do a reset of the card. Setting it to DHCP. After that's done,
print the config page and you can find out it's IP address.


"AllenM" <noreply@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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OK first of all let me apologize because I know this isn't the correct NG
or
even the correct forum to ask this question. However knowing that there
are
still some old IT dinosauers still out there I'm hoping I canfind my
answer
here.
I have this old HP LaserJet 5si MX printer that I had setup about 8 years
ago on this network. Worked fine but after a few months we purchased a new
laserjet printer and the 5si sort of went unused and untouched. Anyways
our
new printer (not new anymore) needed to be serviced so we wanted to use
the
5si temporarily. Well it didn't work. I remember a few years ago we
stopped
using it because it would always get a paper jam. So now all of a sudden
it
wouldn't even print. I could send a print job and it would always error
out.
So I thought I'd print a test apge and checkoutthe configuration. Upon
review I noticed that the gateway was incorrect. Now here is the "excuse
me
but I m totally having a gigantic brain fart" part I need a hints or
reminders.
The LCD on the 5si is on the blink so it is very hard to read. I can't
recall how I set it up. I either inputted the network settings manualy
using
the printers menu functions or I think I used HP Jet Admin to set it up.
Now
I can't recall but I believe in the older days Jet Admin would do a
discovery using MAC hardware addresses? I downloaded the latest version of
HP Jet Admin 10.0 and cannot run a discovery searching for hardware
addresses. It appears it will only search for IP ranges. So here is my
problem. I did a cold reset on the 5si so all the network configuration is
cleared. So I'm lost as to how to get it back on my network. Does anybody
remember how the older HP LAserJets with Jet Direct cards are seup on the
network? Thanks and please excuse my ignorance or lack of memory.





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