Re: printer-driver-foo2zjs and udev
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Steven Rosenberg
<stevenhrosenberg@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
Now that I think about it, I did have to "reinstall" the printer after
I upgraded from Squeeze to Wheezy, but once I did that, the printer
worked normally and still does.
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