Yesterday we bought a HPLaserJet 4100N and we conected it directly to the network (it has it own ethernet card). We have several computers in the network, ones runing windows98 and others linux (Mandrake 7.2 and Mandrake 8.0). The main installation was done using the windows software that comes with the printer; this software is capable of give to the printer the IP number (this could be the problem, if you don't have a windows computer(95, 98, NT, Millenium, 2000 or XP) attached to the net, I don't know how to do that from a linux box; perhaps there are an alternative software but HP don't give you any chance.
Okey, after that there was not problem from the computers using 7.2 and 8.0 (Mandrake) using cups (open the navegator and put as url: http://localhost:631) to install the printer and print from linux (BTW, the release of cups coming with 7.2 hasn't the HP 4100 drivers, but with a generic postcrip one the printer runed fine). I hope this experience could help you. See you
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