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JohnTheCoolingFan
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 Posted: Tue May 28, 2024 9:31 am Post subject: [SOLVED] foo2zjs is missing Hp P10xx firmware files |
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TL;DR: the firmware file is there but under foo2xqx (not foo2zjs) and the hotplug scripts and udev rules are broken right now, there is a pr to fix this
I've installed net-print/foo2zjs to be able to print using cups and without hplip (as in my personal opinion, it's a horrible piece of software), but I'm having problems with the printer not doing anything yet cups is reporting that everything is fine. I've selected foo2zjs's driver in printer's configuration in cups. I've also found some installation instructions from foo2zjs: https://github.com/koenkooi/foo2zjs/blob/master/INSTALL which suggests to use a command usb_printerid to check for firmware, and it reports no firmware being downloaded into the printer. I've re-built and re-merged the package in hopes it would do something. I wanted to try and download the firmware file myself using this command:
| Code: | | cat /usr/share/foo2zjs/firmware/sihpP1005.dl > /dev/usb/lp0 |
Although the INSTALL file says that this should've happened during make install-hotplug, which is what the official ebuild is doing. The firmware file /usr/share/foo2xqx/firmware/sihpP1005.dl is missing from my system with net-print-foo2zjs-20200221 installed.
I am using hplip in the meantime for one-off prints, which works, but I really would like to get this working without it. Can somebody help me understand what goes wrong and maybe attempt a fix for the foo2zjs package?
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vthriller
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| Posted: Tue May 28, 2024 10:47 am Post subject: |
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File might be installed in a different place; you can try
| Code: | | grep sihpP1005 /var/db/pkg/net-print/foo2zjs*/CONTENTS |
to see where it actually is, provided it is present in your system at all. |
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JohnTheCoolingFan
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| Posted: Tue May 28, 2024 11:42 am Post subject: |
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| vthriller wrote: | File might be installed in a different place; you can try
| Code: | | grep sihpP1005 /var/db/pkg/net-print/foo2zjs*/CONTENTS |
to see where it actually is, provided it is present in your system at all. |
Oh yes, that finds it, located at /usr/share/foo2xqx/firmware
And I've been using the foo2xqx driver... I'm a bit confused then on why it didn't upload the firmware by itself. I guess that needs a manual step for each poweroff of the printer. |
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JohnTheCoolingFan
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| Posted: Tue May 28, 2024 11:59 am Post subject: |
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I've found what seems to be the cause of hotplug not working. The udev rules don't get installed and the symlinks at /etc/gotplug/usb/hplj* are broken as they point to locations under /var/tmp/portage
I can just hand-install what is needed for my printer, but I'm more interested in fixing the gentoo package/ebuild itself. Is that a good idea? Am I doing something that someone has already done? I don't know, but sounds interesting.
Ah, there is an open pull request that fixes that issue as well
A simple fix is:
UPD: this kinda works, the firmware gets uploaded, but then I can't find the lp0 device or any of the supposed symlinks the udev rules should make. And also if you use systemd, systemd-udevd will throw a soft error at the usage of NAME. |
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