On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 2:03 PM, José Luis Segura Lucas <josel.seg...@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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CALDrw3PNZ=2pt87itSYHqrkJSakD2wRDcUX=f_zvemgpz3h...@mail.gmail.com
