HP LaserJet 1018 on Slackware 12 September 2, 2007

Today I got a printer (HP LaserJet 1018), before to buy it, I did some research on Google to find out if it was supported by GNU/Linux. This Web Site says that its mostly supported by the O.S., so I went to buy it. When I got home and plugged everything but I couldnt print a sheet, and I followed what they said in the site. I even went to this site but nothing happened. What I realized was that I needed foomatic-filters, so I downloaded from linuxpackages, and then started all the process again. After doing that, I gave execution permissions to cups and I could finally add the printer and print.

Resume of steps,

wget -O foo2zjs.tar.gz http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/foo2zjs.tar.gz

tar zxf foo2zjs.tar.gz

cd foo2zjs

make

./getweb 1018

As root,

make install

make install-hotplug

make cups

chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.cups

/etc/rc.d/rc.cups start