DSM-G600, DNS-3xx and NSA-220 Hack Forum

Rival wrote:

My problem is when you switch off the printer and DNS-323 too (i.e. power failure) and turn on again simultaneously, the firmware hasn't been fed to printer yet. Is there any way to upload the firmware before the first print job (i.e. using a flag to know that firmware has been uploaded)? It's not such a big problem, I'm happy to see my printer working with a print server...

It's not a nice solution, but I've put the line "cat /mnt/HD_a2/fun_plug.d/etc/sihp1000.dl > /dev/usblp0" to the end of fun_plug script, so my problem solved. It forces firmware upload after the dns-323 restarts. I don't use any other USB devices so it's a working solution to me...

oxygen wrote:

Uhm. wierd. I have a HP Laserjet 1010, which perfectly fits by it's number in that line, but it does not need such workarounds.

I think HP LJ 1010 is slightly "better" than 1000w. You have USB2.0 capability and 8MB of RAM. These are not in the same product line. 1000w has been discontinued long ago. I'm not sure but 1010 has it's own firmware, and the "host-based" term means that the driver rasterizes the data to print not the printer itself. I think host-based might also mean "firmwareless" in my case.

From somewhere on Internet: "A printer that has built-in support for Windows Graphical Device Interface (GDI). GDI is used by most Windows applications to display images on a monitor, so when printing from a Windows application to a GDI printer, there is no need to convert the output to another format such as PostScript or PCL.
GDI printers are sometimes called host-based printers because they rely on the host computer to rasterize pages."

So If I'm right there are dumb and dumber host-based printers. You have the smarter one...

Great work!

For my case, the printer prints fine without injecting GDI firmware, and I just want the unit to sleep properly. Let's assume I'm only connecting the printer to the USB port. I assume I can remove product identification and simplify the script to do the following?

   if [ "$ACTION" = "add" ]; then
      echo "USB Device (Printer?) detected" >>/mnt/HD_a2/fun_plug.d/log/hotplug.log
      sleep 5
      lpd
   fi

   if [ "$ACTION" = "remove" ]; then
      echo "USB Device (Printer?) removed" >>/mnt/HD_a2/fun_plug.d/log/hotplug.log
      echo "Killing lpd..." >>/mnt/HD_a2/fun_plug.d/log/hotplug.log
      kill `pidof lpd`
   fi

Will this work?

An alternative solution would be to create the .lpd on a USB key and bypass the hard disk for printing purposes all together. Of course that involves using a USB hub.

blahsome wrote:

Will this work?

Yes, I think so. You simply just start lpd daemon when turning on the printer and kill when turning off (or unplug). If you would like this, it's fine. For me this must be the solution to the spin-down problem (I'm testing it).

Unfortunately, I can't have my laserjet 1000 (connected to the DNS-323) work from XP : each time I try to print something, the document stays in the Windows printer queue with an "error" status...

Is there anything I can do on the DNS side to check what's wrong (logs, debug level...) ? (I've got firmware 1.05 + fun_plug)

May I, for instance, try to print something from the DNS-323 so that I would be sure everything is ok from the printer point of view ?

Thanks in advance !

Hello everyone:

Got a DNS-323 with 1.6 firmware and a HP 1018 printer.

   
I followed all the steps described here (at least that's what I think and I'm very new to Linux) but my printer doesn't work.

Can someone help me?

Thanks in advance.

For fun plug v0.5 you should edit /etc/hotplug/usb.agent file and insert the "if [ "$PRODUCT" = "xxx/xxx/xxx" ]..." lines to it's add) and remove) sections.

Last edited by Rival (2009-07-31 15:18:09)