On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Steven Rosenberg <stevenhrosenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
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. -- 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/CALDrw3NjiM2icp991DEbeJTARjSzdF_agTsRN=evxz6tekw...@mail.gmail.com