Ok, I will try removing the printer and adding it again. Thanks for the advice :-) On 14/01/13 03:31, Steven Rosenberg wrote: > 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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