On Thu, October 15, 2015 1:30 am, Reco wrote: > Did this 'configuration report' mention the netmask used by printer? > What about printer's MAC?
Yes; the title is "JetDirect Configuration Page", which provides the following: IP ADDRESS: 192.168.1.210 SUBNET MASK: 255.255.255.0 DEF. GATEWAY: 192.168.1.1 LAN HW ADDRESS: 0010835D432B I presume that the "LAN HW ADDRESS:" is the mac address. > NetworkManager is unnecessary complex tool for such simple task. > A simple sequence of 'ip link set' and 'ip address add' is sufficient > for such things. Understood; but NetWorkManager is installed by default by the Debian installer when Xfce is specified in Jessie. Can I make use of NetworkManager, or ignore it? > You do not need to guess here. Run tcpdump at your laptop, power cycle > the printer. As long as you see requests to 0.0.0.0 udp port 67 - the > printer uses DHCP for configuration. I brought the printer (and the laptop) back here. I installed tcpdump. I see no requests to 0.0.0.0 udp port 67. Russ
