[gentoo-user] Trying to set up HP printer with foo2zjs

[Frank Steinmetzger]

Dear knowledgables

I am trying to set up an HP LaserJet 1000 printer with foo2zjs. I had been
using hplip in the past (which did work), but for several (mostly non-
techical) reasons, I don’t want to use that. I was happy with foo2zjs back
in the day when it was still “stable” in portage.

So I downloaded foo2zjs from its website, compiled it and installed it into
/usr/local. Then I had to copy over an udev rules file and the firmware
helper into /etc/hotplug/usb/hplj1000.

I plugged the printer in -- nothing. That would have been too easy. On a
hunch, I removed the KERNEL=="lp*" test from the udev rule. Now the udev
rule matched and the firmware loader was triggered and did its job
(confirmed by the printer spinning up after receiving the firmware).

I could set up the printer in Cups, which did find the foo2zjs files. Its
details are:
| Driver:      HP LaserJet 1000 Foomatic/foo2zjs (recommended) (grayscale, 2-sided printing)
| Connection:  usb://HP/LaserJet%201000
But here my journey ends. If I try to print something, nothing happens.

I tried it in a quite fresh Xubuntu in VirtualBox, which came with a basic
hplip installed (without the GUI stuff). Using hp-doctor, I set up the printer,
which mostly constisted of downloading the firmware from the web, and possibly
some other file setup. Afterwards, the printer worked.

So I compared my Gentoo and that Xubuntu. As it turned out, Xubuntu uses usblp,
which everywhere I read I’m told to disable if I want to use cups with USB.
ls -l /dev/hp* gives me:

Ubuntu:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       7 Okt 18 00:52 /dev/hplj1000-0 -> usb/lp0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      15 Okt 18 00:52 /dev/hplj1000-2 -> bus/usb/002/003

Gentoo:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      15 18. Okt 01:35 /dev/hplj1000-9 -> bus/usb/003/012


So what’s my next option? What could I be missing? Thanks for your insight.
PS.: I’m away over Saturday and probably won’t be able to reply until Sunday.


dmesg from Xubuntu when plugging in the printer:
| usb 2-2: new full-speed USB device number 3 using ohci-pci
| usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=03f0, idProduct=0517
| usb 2-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
| usb 2-2: Product: hp LaserJet 1000
| usb 2-2: Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
| WARNING! power/level is deprecated; use power/control instead
| usblp 2-2:1.0: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 3 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x0517
| usbcore: registered new interface driver usblp

syslog from my Gentoo:
| [kernel] [21569.964698] usb 3-9: new full-speed USB device number 12 using xhci_hcd
| [kernel] [21570.131930] usb 3-9: New USB device found, idVendor=03f0, idProduct=0517
| [kernel] [21570.131942] usb 3-9: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
| [kernel] [21570.131944] usb 3-9: Product: hp LaserJet 1000
| [kernel] [21570.131945] usb 3-9: Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
| [mtp-probe] checking bus 3, device 12: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-9"_
| [mtp-probe] bus: 3, device: 12 was not an MTP device_
| [/etc/hotplug/usb/hplj1000] foo2zjs: loading HP LaserJet 1000 firmware /usr/local/share/foo2zjs/firmware/sihp1000.dl to CUPS USB device ...
| [/etc/hotplug/usb/hplj1000] foo2zjs: usb://HP/LaserJet%201000... download successful.

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