Comment 3 for bug 329898

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Wawrzyniec NiewodniczaƄski (wawrzek) wrote : Re: The HP 1018 printer is not supported in Ubuntu 8.10

Next step was to install foomatic-db-hpijs

After that the proper set printer appeared "automagiclly" in System->Administration->Printer Settings

The problem is that it's not working if you restart system with started printer.

I.e. error message from hp-firmaware

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 2.8.7)
Firmware Download Utility ver. 1.1

Copyright (c) 2001-8 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

Using device: hp:/usb/HP_LaserJet_1018?serial=KP28TX4
error: Unable to communicate with device (code=12): hp:/usb/HP_LaserJet_1018?serial=KP28TX4
error: Error opening device (Device not found). Exiting.

and dmesg:

[ 618.508495] type=1503 audit(1234744567.807:5): operation="inode_permission" requested_mask="::rw" denied_mask="::rw" fsuid=7 name="/dev/tty" pid=5826 profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd"
[ 623.992230] usb 1-2: usbfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed cmd hpijs rqt 128 rq 6 len 255 ret -110
[ 653.774576] type=1503 audit(1234744603.071:6): operation="inode_permission" requested_mask="::rw" denied_mask="::rw" fsuid=7 name="/dev/tty" pid=5891 profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd"
[ 657.588130] usb 1-2: usbfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed cmd hp rqt 128 rq 6 len 255 ret -110
[ 658.888164] usb 1-2: usbfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed cmd hpijs rqt 128 rq 6 len 255 ret -110
[ 681.984069] usb 1-2: usbfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed cmd python rqt 128 rq 6 len 255 ret -110
[ 686.984112] usb 1-2: usbfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed cmd python rqt 128 rq 6 len 255 ret -110
[ 692.284107] usb 1-2: usbfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed cmd python rqt 128 rq 6 len 255 ret -110
[ 692.592054] usb 1-2: usbfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed cmd hp rqt 128 rq 6 len 255 ret -110
[ 727.760205] usb 1-2: usbfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed cmd hp rqt 128 rq 6 len 255 ret -110