HP printers firmware uploader

What are the missing steps to make it work?

I've progressed a bit further. Now I can make the printer hotpluggable.

What you need to do: (I assume you have the foo2zjs add-on installed)

1. Install EnableRootSSH add-on so you can open a SSH shell on your NAS (login:root Password:your admin PW)

2. Install Apt add-on so you can install additional Debian packages

3. Reboot

4. Login to the NAS via SSH. (If you need a SSH-client for Windows: use Putty)

5. Run apt-get update to build package database

apt-get update

6. Install ed and vim (text editors). The hotplug script needs those to work.

apt-get install ed
apt-get install vim

Apt-get might not install the packages until some extra libraries are installed. It will prompt you if needed.

apt-get -f install

7. Jump to the root and download my tarball with updated firmwares: You must stand in the root, because the files are stored with full path.

cd /
wget http://www4.tripnet.se/~fredrik/HPfirmware.tar.gz
tar tvfz /HPfirmware.tar.gz

The tarball should contain these files:

-rw-r--r-- root/root    222443 2009-12-29 18:42:21 usr/share/foo2xqx/firmware/sihpP1005.dl
-rw-r--r-- root/root    222571 2009-12-29 21:49:02 usr/share/foo2xqx/firmware/sihpP1006.dl
-rw-r--r-- root/root    248683 2009-12-29 21:49:15 usr/share/foo2xqx/firmware/sihpP1505.dl
-rw-r--r-- root/root    114233 2009-12-29 21:43:53 usr/share/foo2zjs/firmware/sihp1000.dl
-rw-r--r-- root/root    116925 2009-12-29 22:10:35 usr/share/foo2zjs/firmware/sihp1005.dl
-rw-r--r-- root/root    129143 2009-12-29 18:41:33 usr/share/foo2zjs/firmware/sihp1018.dl
-rw-r--r-- root/root    128431 2009-12-29 18:41:40 usr/share/foo2zjs/firmware/sihp1020.dl

If contents is OK (P1007 uses the same FW as P1005 and P1008 uses same as P1006), extract the file.

tar xvfz /HPfirmware.tar.gz

8. Jump to the /etc/hotplug/usb folder.

cd /etc/hotplug/usb

Run the hotplug script hpljXXXX (replace XXXX with your model) to see if the firmware loads. LEDs should be blinking.

./hpljP1005

If the script got stuck while copying the FW, then your FW might be broken. Press Ctrl-C to abort. Let me know if you need a new firmware.

If the script ran without a hitch, print a test page.

Notice! The FW for P1006, P1008 and P1505 may still be broken (possible bug in the retrieval tool, getweb, that I used to download the FW) Let me know.

9. When the printer prints OK, you have to make it hotpluggable.

./hpljP1005 install-usermap

If the script complains that the commands ed or ex can't be found, then ed or vim didn't install properly. Repeat #6.

And you're done!


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Edit: typo
Edit2: Rewrote #7 completely and edited #8