HOWTO_HP_LaserJet_P1006

1 About
2 General system settings
- 2.1 Packages
3 Hacking packages
- 3.1 Patching foo2zjs package
- 3.2 Updating udev rules
4 Whats next ?

About

This HOWTO could help to power up printers in Gentoo that supposed to be supported by driver foo2xqx

General system settings

Packages

net-print/hplip have to be build with ppds flag and net-print/foo2zjs with foomaticdb support. Put in FOO2ZJS_DEVICES devices which you are going to use.

Code: Emerging packages

  
 # echo "net-print/foo2zjs foomaticdb usb cups" >> /etc/portage/package.use
 # echo 'FOO2ZJS_DEVICES="hpp1006"' >> /etc/make.conf
 # echo "net-print/hplip ppds" >> /etc/portage/package.use
 # emerge -av hplip foo2zjs

Emerge net-print/cups package if it have not been emerged yet.

Code: Emerging packages

  
 # echo "net-print/cups ppds" >> /etc/portage/package.use
 # emerge -av cups

Hacking packages

At present (08 APR 2008) your HP LaserJet P1006 printer wouldn't work just out of the box in Gentoo. Some simple patches are needed to performed.

Patching foo2zjs package

Open file /sbin/foo2zjs-loadfw in your favorite editor and look at this part of file

File: /sbin/foo2zjs-loadfw

 
...
#
#   Figure out the model number from the name of this script
#
case "$1" in
P1006)
    MODEL="P1006"
    MODELNAME="HP LaserJet P1006"
    ;;
1000)
    MODEL=1000
    MODELNAME="hp LaserJet $MODEL"
    ;;
1005)
    MODEL=1005
    MODELNAME="hp LaserJet $MODEL"
    ;;
1018)
    MODEL=1018
    MODELNAME="HP LaserJet $MODEL"
    ;;
1020)
    MODEL=1020
    MODELNAME="HP LaserJet $MODEL"
    ;;
*)
    log "Only HP LaserJet 1000, 1005, 1018 and 1020 are supported"
    log "You need to supply one of these on the cmdline: $0 10**"
    exit
    ;;
esac
...

Just add case for your model in this part. If needed model of printer is presented here skip this part. I have put here section for P1006 model. MODELNAME here is the full printer name as it give usb_printers utility

Code: Looking for printer name

  
noname linux # usb_printerid /dev/usb/lp0
GET_DEVICE_ID string:
MFG:Hewlett-Packard;MDL:HP LaserJet P1006;CMD:HBS,PJL,ACL;CLS:PRINTER;DES:HP LaserJet P1006;

Model name is used for locating firmware file. So if you fw file is /lib/firmware/sihpP1006.dl put in MODEL var string P1006

Note: Name of the printer and model name are case sensitive. Just copy and paste it from usb_printerid output

Finaly checking up modified script.

Code: Loading firmware

  
noname linux # /sbin/foo2zjs-loadfw P1006 /dev/usb/lp0
MFG:Hewlett-Packard;MDL:HP LaserJet P1006;CMD:ACL;CLS:PRINTER;DES:HP LaserJet P1006;
/sbin/foo2zjs-loadfw: loading HP LaserJet P1006 firmware /lib/firmware/sihpP1006.dl to /dev/usb/lp0 ...
/sbin/foo2zjs-loadfw: ... download successful.
noname linux # usb_printerid /dev/usb/lp0
GET_DEVICE_ID string:
MFG:Hewlett-Packard;MDL:HP LaserJet P1006;CMD:HBS,PJL,ACL;CLS:PRINTER;DES:HP LaserJet P1006;FWVER:20070910;
noname linux #

String FWVER:20070910; in usb_printerid output show us success of loading firmware.

Updating udev rules

Open file /etc/udev/rules.d/11-hplj10xx.rules and add string type of for your printer.

File: /etc/udev/rules.d/11-hplj10xx.rules

ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="lp*", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="03f0", \ ATTRS{idProduct}=="3e17", RUN+="/sbin/foo2zjs-loadfw P1006 $tempnode"

Product ID one can find in lsusb outout

Code: Determine product ID

noname linux # lsusb Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 024: ID 03f0:3e17 Hewlett-Packard Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0458:0036 KYE Systems Corp. (Mouse Systems) Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Here 3e17 is the product ID of my HP P1006 printer. Turn off and again turn on printer and check output of usb_printerid command. If string like FWVER:20070910 is present then everything is ok.

Whats next ?

Now shamanism is gone and you can setup printer in usual way by means of hp-setup utility from package net-print/hplip. Just run it and follow instructions.

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