No way to disable HP Smart Install under Linux
Bug #672134 reported by
Josselin Mouette
This bug affects 9 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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HPLIP |
In Progress
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Undecided
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Sanjay Kumar |
Bug Description
I just bought a LaserJet P1102, because the HPLIP site states it has “full support” under Linux, and it is even part of the recommended models.
However without a Windows installation, it is just a brick. Thanks to HP Smart Install, it shows up as a fake USB cdrom drive. Of course hp-setup doesn’t manage to communicate with it in this state, and it doesn’t feature a way to switch it back to being a printer.
The driver CD contains a Windows executable to disable this “feature”, named SIUtility.exe. Please provide the sources for this tool, or at least the technical specifications of HP Smart Install, so that it can be disabled automatically using the existing usb_modeswitch utility.
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Yes this is true that in Linux we do not provide tool similar to windows SIUtility tool. Sorry for Inconvenience. We may take this for future enhancement.
Thanks and Regards
Yashwant