JetDirect model script

[Joe Chow_1]

Hi, there.

I'm having trouble install a HP4650 printer through JetDirect. It's telling me the model script is missing when I try install it. So I try updating the model scripts through the web, although I see the script on the software list, but for some reason it's giving me an error when I choose to download and install it.

Anyway, is there anyway to manually install the model scripts, and what's the path to it. Or any other way to get around setting up a printer/plotter on a HP-UX 11i machine.

thanks in advance for any info.
Joe

[Mel Burslan]

download this modelscript one more time from this URL:

http://www.hp.com/pond/modelscripts/net_lj4650.sh.Z

place it in /tmp or someplace you will remember.

uncompress it.
run the .sh coming out of uncompress command and it will place the modelscript where it belongs to.

try to install/configure your new printer queue using hppi (located at /opt/hpnpl/bin/hppi). The script will check if you have the correct printer driver for the device you are trying to connect. If you still get modelscript not found or something similar, please post the exact error meesage for further help.

[Joe Chow_1]

Thanks for the suggestion. I've successfully installed the model script for this HP4650 in JetDirect. However, I'm still getting error when I tried installing the printer, this is what I have:

Please enter selection: 1

Enter the network printer name or IP address (q - quit): 10.69.168.46


ERROR: Printer configuration error
Could not find the printer configuration file
Please verify software installation

****************************************************************
*****] ****
**** ] **** JetDirect Printer Installer for UNIX
**** ]]]]] ]]]]] **** Version E.10.34
**** ] ] ] ] ****
**** ] ] ]]]]] **** Spooler Administration
***** ] ****
****** ] **** User: (root) OS: (HP-UX B.11.11)
I N V E N T
****************************************************************

Spooler:
1) Add printer to local spooler
2) Delete printer from local spooler
3) Modify existing spooler queue(s)
4) Install New Model Script
5) Remove Model Script

?) Help q) Quit

[Mike Show · Accepted solution]

Here's the fix, if you already haven't discovered it:

In /opt/hpnpl/admin/printers there will be a file, 349.cfg, cp this to 369.cfg and run hppi again to install the printer.

The modelscript for the 4650 is messed up from HP. When you install the modelscript for the 4650 it installs this 349.cfg but the 4650 reports to hppi that it's a 369.cfg and hppi can't find the 369.cfg file and thus you get the "verify software install message"

[Joe Chow_1]

Thanks for everyone's great input, this has been resolved.