Re: HPLIP: equivalent of ptal-devid wanted

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On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 03:31:12PM +0200, Till Kamppeter wrote:

> I use "lpinfo -v" to get available "hp://..." URIs. To associate=20
> /dev/usb/... devices to them, I do "getusbprinterid.pl <device>" and=20
> find the "hp://..." URI which contains the "MODEL" or "MDL" field of the=
=20
> detected ID string right after "hp://usb/" and, if available, matches=20
> the serial number.

Okay.  Well, I think I'll just ship hp-devid along with the Fedora
Core printer configuration tool for the time being, since that fits
into the existing code more easily.

> To determine whether a printer is supported by HPLIP already before
> installing/starting HPLIP I match the '<model name=3D"...">' in
> /usr/share/hplip/data/xml/models.xml against the "MODEL" or "MDL"
> field of the detected ID string. The HPLIP RPM I have made in a way
> that /usr/share/hplip/data/xml/models.xml is in a separate RPM and
> this separate RPM is always installed. printerdrake installes the
> rest of HPLIP when it detects a supported printer.

That's clever, but isn't that information already in foomatic?

Tim.
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