Bug#630228: foo2zjs: Firmware upload is not compatible with cups

2011-06-14 Thread Till Kamppeter
I have now updated the Ubuntu package (20110210dfsg-1ubuntu4) applying the attached patch. The patch modifies the firmware upload script hplj1000. It adds support for douing the firmware upload through the usb backend of CUPS. This makes the upload independent of the presence of usblp. It

Bug#630228: foo2zjs: Firmware upload is not compatible with cups

2011-06-14 Thread Till Kamppeter
Small fix done on the patch ... Till Index: foo2zjs-20110210dfsg/hplj1000 === --- foo2zjs-20110210dfsg.orig/hplj1000 2011-06-14 16:30:59.331940282 +0200 +++ foo2zjs-20110210dfsg/hplj1000 2011-06-14 16:31:26.151976656 +0200 @@

Bug#630228: foo2zjs: Firmware upload is not compatible with cups

2011-06-12 Thread Peter De Wachter
Package: foo2zjs Version: 20110210dfsg-2 Severity: serious The latest cups upload blacklisted the usblp kernel module, but foo2zjs' firmware upload scripts need that module to function. Would it be difficult to rewrite the firmware scripts to use raw usb devices? -- System Information: Debian

Bug#630228: foo2zjs: Firmware upload is not compatible with cups

2011-06-12 Thread Didier Raboud
Le dimanche, 12 juin 2011 15.40:09, Peter De Wachter a écrit : Package: foo2zjs Version: 20110210dfsg-2 Severity: serious The latest cups upload blacklisted the usblp kernel module, but foo2zjs' firmware upload scripts need that module to function. Would it be difficult to rewrite the

Bug#630228: foo2zjs: Firmware upload is not compatible with cups

2011-06-12 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 06/12/2011 04:03 PM, Didier Raboud wrote: I'm hereby CC'ing the CUPS maintainers; opinions ? I know about that problem and I will update the firmware upload script in the foo2zjs package soon, so that it also works with libusb. Till -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#630228: Info received (Bug#630228: foo2zjs: Firmware upload is not compatible with cups)

2011-06-12 Thread Till Kamppeter
The fix is simple. The firmware uploader script needs to determine whether usblp is loaded or not, and if it is not loaded and the CUPS filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/usb exists, it should run a command line like this (1020 replaced by actual model number): for uri in `sudo

Bug#630228: Info received (Bug#630228: foo2zjs: Firmware upload is not compatible with cups)

2011-06-12 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 04:55:49PM +0200, Till Kamppeter wrote: The fix is simple. The firmware uploader script needs to determine whether usblp is loaded or not, and if it is not loaded and the CUPS filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/usb exists, it should run a command line like this (1020 replaced

Bug#630228: foo2zjs: Firmware upload is not compatible with cups

2011-06-12 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 06/12/2011 05:29 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: Why is this not being done at a lower level, e.g. via udev or other existing hotplug mechanisms? Firmware-loading for /any/ device is not the remit of cups, and it's really not cups' call to disable any module loading. Do you know a tool which can