Re: printer-driver-foo2zjs and udev
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 2:03 PM, José Luis Segura Lucas
<josel.segura@gmx.es> wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> On Debian Testing I'm unable to make working an HP Laserjet 1018 after a
> big upgrade, after a lot of time without accessing the system.
>
> After a lot of tries, I just figured that, if I turn off the udev
> service when I power on the printer, then I can use the script
> "hplj1018" to upload the proprietary firmware to it and then, make it
> working, but in the usual scenario, with all the services started and so
> on, I'm unable.
>
> After a little debug onto the hplj1018 script, I see that, when udev is
> started, the command "usb_printerid" doesn't return the expected output
> to the script, and it can't upload the firmware.
>
> In addition, I saw that printer-driver-foo2zjs package contains some
> udev rules. It's likely if the hplj1018 script will be run when the
> printer is detected at power up, but it doesn't work (or it doesn't work
> on the expected way).
>
> Has anyone experienced the same problem?
>
> In addition, I'm testing all that stuff from a remote location, so I
> don't have access to the printer to power it off and on, so the testing
> is difficult. Do you know some way to "simulate" the connection and
> disconnection of the USB device related to the printer? It will be nice
> to do it without calling by phone.
>
> Thaks in advance
>
I'm using a HP LaserJet 1020, which I think is pretty similar, and I'm
not doing anything special in Wheezy. It just works.
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