Hey guys,
I got an issue with setting up my old Laserjet 1020. Neither HP-Setup nor the foomatic driver seem to be able to detect the printer. I tried diferent USB ports without success. The hwinfo commad shows the crrect information:
/usr/sbin/hwinfo--printer
19: USB 00.0: 10900 Printer
[Created at usb.122]
Unique ID: Yl4J.POFAorwUAB4
Parent ID: KRJj.lRoCB54l1cE
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-1/3-1.2/3-1.2:1.0
SysFS BusID: 3-1.2:1.0
Hardware Class: printer
Model: "HP LaserJet 1020"
Hotplug: USB
Vendor: usb 0x03f0 "HP"
Device: usb 0x2b17 "LaserJet 1020"
Revision: "1.00"
Serial ID: "JL1VKJZ"
Speed: 480 Mbps
Module Alias: "usb:v03F0p2B17d0100dc00dsc00dp00ic07isc01ip02in00"
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: usblp is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe usblp"
Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #11 (Hub)
However, running hp-doctor produces a huge number of error messages mostly about missing dependencies, which I am not able to install (I didn’t try to install them manually):
hp-doctor
**HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.21.6)**
**Self Diagnse Utility and Healing Utility ver. 1.0**
Copyright (c) 2001-18 HP 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.
**HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.21.6)**
**Self Diagnse Utility and Healing Utility ver. 1.0**
Copyright (c) 2001-18 HP 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.
**Checking for Deprecated items....**
**error: This distro (i.e suse 20211106) is either deprecated or not yet supported.**
**The diagnosis is limited on unsupported platforms. Do you want to continue?(y=yes*, n=no):**y
**Checking for HPLIP updates....**
**HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.21.6)**
**HPLIP upgrade latest version ver. 1.0**
Copyright (c) 2001-18 HP 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.
**error: HPLIP upgrade is disabled by openSUSE for security reasons, see https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853405 - if you like to upgrade HPLIP, use an o**
penSUSE software package manager like YaST or zypper.
Done.
**error: Failed to upgrade latest HPLIP. Is hp-upgrade already running (i.e. foreground or background)?**
**Checking for Dependencies....**
**warning: 3-20211106 version is not supported. Using 3-15.3 versions dependencies to verify and install...**
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| SYSTEM INFO |
---------------
Kernel: 5.14.14-1-default #1 SMP Thu Oct 21 05:05:03 UTC 2021 (2b5383f) GNU/Linux
Host: vision
Proc: 5.14.14-1-default #1 SMP Thu Oct 21 05:05:03 UTC 2021 (2b5383f) GNU/Linux
Distribution: 3 20211106
Bitness: 64 bit
-----------------------
| HPLIP CONFIGURATION |
-----------------------
HPLIP-Version: HPLIP 3.21.6
HPLIP-Home: /usr/share/hplip
**warning: HPLIP-Installation: Auto installation is not supported for 3 distro 20211106 version **
**Current contents of '/etc/hp/hplip.conf' file:**
# hplip.conf. Generated from hplip.conf.in by configure.
[hplip]
version=3.21.6
[dirs]
home=/usr/share/hplip
run=/var/run
ppd=/usr/share/cups/model/manufacturer-PPDs/hplip
ppdbase=/usr/share/cups/model/manufacturer-PPDs
doc=/usr/share/doc/packages/hplip
html=/usr/share/doc/packages/hplip
icon=/usr/share/applications
cupsbackend=/usr/lib/cups/backend
cupsfilter=/usr/lib/cups/filter
drv=/usr/lib/cups/driver
bin=/usr/bin
apparmor=/etc/apparmor.d
# Following values are determined at configure time and cannot be changed.
[configure]
network-build=yes
libusb01-build=no
pp-build=no
gui-build=yes
scanner-build=yes
fax-build=yes
dbus-build=yes
cups11-build=no
doc-build=yes
shadow-build=no
hpijs-install=yes
foomatic-drv-install=no
foomatic-ppd-install=yes
foomatic-rip-hplip-install=no
hpcups-install=yes
cups-drv-install=no
cups-ppd-install=yes
internal-tag=3.21.6
restricted-build=no
ui-toolkit=qt5
qt3=no
qt4=no
qt5=yes
policy-kit=no
lite-build=no
udev_sysfs_rules=no
hpcups-only-build=no
hpijs-only-build=no
apparmor_build=no
class-driver=no
**Current contents of '/var/lib/hp/hplip.state' file:**
[plugin]
installed = 1
eula = 1
version = 3.21.6
**Current contents of '~/.hplip/hplip.conf' file:**
[commands]
scan = /usr/bin/xsane -V %SANE_URI%
[fax]
email_address =
voice_phone =
[last_used]
device_uri =
printer_name =
working_dir = .
[polling]
device_list =
enable = false
interval = 5
[refresh]
enable = false
rate = 30
type = 1
[settings]
systray_messages = 0
systray_visible = 0
[upgrade]
last_upgraded_time = 1634905271
notify_upgrade = true
pending_upgrade_time = 0
[installation]
date_time = 11/08/21 13:19:31
version = 3.21.6
<Package-name> <Package-Desc> <Required/Optional> <Min-Version> <Installed-Version> <Status> <Comment>
-------------------------
| External Dependencies |
-------------------------
cups CUPS - Common Unix Printing System REQUIRED 1.1 2.3.3 OK 'CUPS Scheduler is
running'
gs GhostScript - PostScript and PDF language interpreter and previewer REQUIRED 7.05 9.54.0 OK -
xsane xsane - Graphical scanner frontend for SANE OPTIONAL 0.9 0.999 OK -
scanimage scanimage - Shell scanning program OPTIONAL 1.0 1.0.32 OK -
** error: dbus DBus - Message bus system REQUIRED - 1.12.20 MISSING 'DBUS may not be i**
nstalled or not running'
** error: policykit PolicyKit - Administrative policy framework OPTIONAL - 0.118 MISSING 'policykit needs t**
o be installed'
network network -wget OPTIONAL - 1.21.2 OK -
** error: avahi-utils avahi-utils OPTIONAL - - MISSING 'avahi-utils needs**
to be installed'
------------------------
| General Dependencies |
------------------------
** error: libjpeg libjpeg - JPEG library REQUIRED - - MISSING 'libjpeg needs to **
be installed'
** error: cups-devel CUPS devel- Common Unix Printing System development files REQUIRED - 2.3.3 MISSING 'cups-devel needs **
to be installed'
** error: cups-image CUPS image - CUPS image development files REQUIRED - 2.3.3 MISSING 'cups-image needs **
to be installed'
** error: libpthread libpthread - POSIX threads library REQUIRED - b'2.34' MISSING 'libpthread needs **
to be installed'
** error: libusb libusb - USB library REQUIRED - 1.0 MISSING 'libusb needs to b**
e installed'
sane SANE - Scanning library REQUIRED - - OK -
** error: sane-devel SANE - Scanning library development files REQUIRED - - MISSING 'sane-devel needs **
to be installed'
** error: libavahi-dev libavahi-dev REQUIRED - - MISSING 'libavahi-dev need**
s to be installed'
** error: libnetsnmp-devel libnetsnmp-devel - SNMP networking library development files REQUIRED 5.0.9 5.9.1 MISSING 'libnetsnmp-dev**
el needs to be installed'
** error: libcrypto libcrypto - OpenSSL cryptographic library REQUIRED - 1.1.1 MISSING 'libcrypto needs t**
o be installed'
python3X Python 2.2 or greater - Python programming language REQUIRED 2.2 3.8.12 OK -
python3-notify2 Python libnotify - Python bindings for the libnotify Desktop notifications OPTIONAL - - OK -
** error: python3-pyqt4-dbus PyQt 4 DBus - DBus Support for PyQt4 OPTIONAL 4.0 - MISSING 'python3-pyqt**
4-dbus needs to be installed'
** error: python3-pyqt4 PyQt 4- Qt interface for Python (for Qt version 4.x) REQUIRED 4.0 - MISSING 'python3-pyqt4 nee**
ds to be installed'
python3-dbus Python DBus - Python bindings for DBus REQUIRED 0.80.0 1.2.18 OK -
python3-xml Python XML libraries REQUIRED - 2.4.1 OK -
** error: python3-devel Python devel - Python development files REQUIRED 2.2 3.8.12 MISSING 'python3-devel nee**
ds to be installed'
python3-pil PIL - Python Imaging Library (required for commandline scanning with hp-scan) OPTIONAL - 8.4.0 OK -
python3-reportlab Reportlab - PDF library for Python OPTIONAL 2.0 3.5.59 OK -
--------------
| COMPILEDEP |
--------------
** error: libtool libtool - Library building support services REQUIRED - - MISSING 'libtool needs to **
be installed'
** error: gcc gcc - GNU Project C and C++ Compiler REQUIRED - - MISSING 'gcc needs to be i**
nstalled'
make make - GNU make utility to maintain groups of programs REQUIRED 3.0 4.3 OK -
---------------------
| Python Extentions |
---------------------
cupsext CUPS-Extension REQUIRED - 3.21.6 OK -
hpmudext IO-Extension REQUIRED - 3.21.6 OK -
----------------------
| Scan Configuration |
----------------------
hpaio HPLIP-SANE-Backend REQUIRED - 3.21.6 OK 'hpaio found in /e
tc/sane.d/dll.conf'
**error: NOT FOUND OR FAILED TO LOAD! Please reinstall HPLIP and check for the proper installation of scanext.**
** error: scanext Scan-SANE-Extension REQUIRED - 3.21.6 MISSING 'scanext needs to **
be installed'
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Is there any chance the printer will be supported again or should I start looking for a new one?