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Suman Chakrabarti

Suman Chakrabarti

Suman Chakrabarti is retired from decades of senior engineering and IT workgroup administration. He remembers working on Solaris, SunOS, DEC Ultrix, VMS, and Linux workstations back in the day. He also believes in Apple user groups and has been a demonstrator, discussion leader, facilitator, and troubleshooter for multiple groups throughout that time.

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Go Back to Basics When Troubleshooting Aging Hardware

Network connections like Wi-Fi and Ethernet don’t always work well for low-level tasks, such as installing firmware updates. Guest author Suman Chakrabarti had to ditch wireless entirely and return to the device’s simplest connection method—a USB 2.0 cable—to resurrect a nearly decade-old laser printer.