By the look of it, the printer wouldn't work. The script hplj1018 in the foo2zjs tarball Rick Richardson suggested using is exactly the same (save for the location of usb_printerid). That package seems to work fine, so I think the script should not be the problem. I agree there's no chance of it finding the printer as per line 203, but it appears this is not required since the alternative foo2zjs works. Something else in Ubuntu's foo2zjs is broken.
What is the reason why this foo2zjs package is not used in Ubuntu? From the documentation I suspect it's a potential patent problem, but could someone confirm? Indeed, the warning "DON'T USE the foo2zjs package from: Ubuntu, SUSE, Mandrake/Manrivia, Debian, RedHat, Fedora, Gentoo, Xandros, EEE PC, Linpus, MacOSX, or BSD!" seems to indicate that Ubuntu is hardly the only distribution not to use this package, so there must be a good reason... -- HP LJ 1018 regression in hardy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/217215 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
