HP Jetdirect 2552A upgrade

Hi, i´ve got an HP Laserjet 5 with Jetdirect 2552A interface. The
windows firmware upgrade software (HP Download manager) says i can
upgrade to firmware A.08.49 (A.05.05 now), but when i actually tries
to do that, it´s over in three seconds, says it was successful but
did nothing. (i switched the printer off and on afterwards, its the
same old firmware.)

Any ideas?

I found this webpage

http://www.vangeyn.net/j255x/

but the software doesn´t work on win7/64bits.

Karl

From: "Karl"

Hi, i´ve got an HP Laserjet 5 with Jetdirect 2552A interface. The
windows firmware upgrade software (HP Download manager) says i can
upgrade to firmware A.08.49 (A.05.05 now), but when i actually tries
to do that, it´s over in three seconds, says it was successful but
did nothing. (i switched the printer off and on afterwards, its the
same old firmware.)

Any ideas?

I found this webpage

http://www.vangeyn.net/j255x/

but the software doesn´t work on win7/64bits.

Karl

You need HP Download Manager.
http://h20566.www2.hp.com/portal/sit...4892.199480143

I honestly haven't tried it under a 64bit OS. I have used it within
Win2K - Win 7/32

You might want to disable the Windows Firewall to make the software with D/L
the upgraded firmware to the Print Server.

There are also other ways to upgrade firmware on a HP Print Server.

The actual Firmware...
http://ftp.hp.com/pub/networking/sof...re/A0849en.dld

Reference:
http://h20566.www2.hp.com/portal/sit...tte.cachetoken

Shortened URL
http://tinyurl.com/j2550b

I use a KiXtart Script to launch "HP Download Manager" (after it is in
stalled on a PC) and it uses the GNU WGET utility to make sure that I have
all the latest Firmware Files on my notebook's hard disk.

SETCONSOLE("show")
c:
color y+/b+
cls
cd "%ProgramFiles%\Hewlett-Packard\HP Download Manager\Upgrades\jetdirect"
shell "wget -N
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/networking/software/jetdirect/firmware/*.dld"
shell "wget -N
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/networking/software/jetdirect/firmware/*.glf"
sleep 2
SETCONSOLE("hide")
cd "%ProgramFiles%\Hewlett-Packard\HP Download Manager"
run "hpjdwnld.exe"


--
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From: "David H. Lipman"

Ooooops...

The actual Firmware for the J2552A is Version = A.05.05
http://ftp.hp.com/pub/networking/sof...re/a0505en.dld

There is no update. This JetDirect is VERY old. From the days of 10Mb/s
and thin-net ethernet.


--
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Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk
http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

On Tue, 03 Jun 2014 19:02:10 -0400, David H. Lipman wrote:

From: "David H. Lipman"

Ooooops...

The actual Firmware for the J2552A is Version = A.05.05
http://ftp.hp.com/pub/networking/sof...re/a0505en.dld

There is no update. This JetDirect is VERY old. From the days of
10Mb/s and thin-net ethernet.

It does 10BaseT as well. I am still using two of them!



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On 04.06.2014 01:02, David H. Lipman wrote:
From: "David H. Lipman"

Ooooops...

The actual Firmware for the J2552A is Version = A.05.05
http://ftp.hp.com/pub/networking/sof...re/a0505en.dld


There is no update. This JetDirect is VERY old. From the days of
10Mb/s and thin-net ethernet.

Jounger than the Laserjet 5 it is in, which is from 1995 or so. That
one was originally sold with J2550A. Kid might not even be out of
school yet. ;-)

But i find it strange that the update software claims to have an
update, but the jetdirect card knows better and that it wouldn´t fit
and just silently drops it.

Well, nevermind. i just hoped to get dhcp to work. Our network
administration frowns on static addresses.

K

From: "Karl"

On 04.06.2014 01:02, David H. Lipman wrote:
From: "David H. Lipman"

Ooooops...

The actual Firmware for the J2552A is Version = A.05.05
http://ftp.hp.com/pub/networking/sof...re/a0505en.dld

There is no update. This JetDirect is VERY old. From the days of
10Mb/s and thin-net ethernet.

Jounger than the Laserjet 5 it is in, which is from 1995 or so. That
one was originally sold with J2550A. Kid might not even be out of
school yet. ;-)

But i find it strange that the update software claims to have an
update, but the jetdirect card knows better and that it wouldn´t fit
and just silently drops it.

Well, nevermind. i just hoped to get dhcp to work. Our network
administration frowns on static addresses.

K

The admin is wrong. Print Servers and other appliances are best used with
static addressing.

One can bypass the internel P/S and use an external such as the JetDirect
300X (J3263A).

It is a 10/100 P/S and does support DHCP.

--
Dave
Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk
http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

On Wed, 04 Jun 2014 11:01:41 +0200, Karl wrote:

On 04.06.2014 01:02, David H. Lipman wrote:
From: "David H. Lipman"

Ooooops...

The actual Firmware for the J2552A is Version = A.05.05
http://ftp.hp.com/pub/networking/sof...rect/firmware/
a0505en.dld


There is no update. This JetDirect is VERY old. From the days of
10Mb/s and thin-net ethernet.

Jounger than the Laserjet 5 it is in, which is from 1995 or so. That one
was originally sold with J2550A. Kid might not even be out of school
yet. ;-)

But i find it strange that the update software claims to have an update,
but the jetdirect card knows better and that it wouldn´t fit and just
silently drops it.

Well, nevermind. i just hoped to get dhcp to work. Our network
administration frowns on static addresses.

One of mine is working fine with DHCP. The other has a static address.



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