hp-setup is the setup tool for HP printers, part of the hplip package. It cannot scan usb without lsusb. tim@MushaV3 ~/programming $ hp-setup HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.14.10) Printer/Fax Setup Utility ver. 9.0 Copyright (c) 2001-13 Hewlett-Packard 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. warning: Fax setup disabled - Python 2.3+ required. Searching... (bus=usb, search=(None), desc=0) error: Failed to find the lsusb command error: No devices found on bus: usb Searching... (bus=usb, search=(None), desc=0) error: Failed to find the lsusb command error: No devices found on bus: usb Done. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge hplip without usbutils 2. hp-setup 3. no printers found - error message about not finding lsusb in console Actual Results: No printers found and it quits Expected Results: Find printers connected via usb tim@MushaV3 ~ $ emerge --info Portage 2.2.14 (python 2.7.9-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop, gcc-4.9.2, glibc-2.19-r1, 3.14.14-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.14.14-gentoo-x86_64-AMD_Phenom-tm-_II_X6_1075T_Processor-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 8162492 total, 495860 free KiB Swap: 25165816 total, 24599984 free Timestamp of tree: Sun, 08 Mar 2015 02:45:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.24 p1.4) 2.24 distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] ccache version 3.1.9 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.2_p53 dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0 dev-lang/perl: 5.20.1-r4 dev-lang/python: 2.7.9-r1, 3.3.5-r1, 3.4.1 dev-util/ccache: 3.1.9-r4 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.12.2-r1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.13.11 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6-r1, 1.12.6, 1.13.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.24-r3 sys-devel/gcc: 4.8.4, 4.9.2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.4 sys-devel/make: 4.1-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.18 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.19-r1 Repositories: gentoo gamerlay stintel fouxlay steam-overlay ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=amdfam10" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/sofficerc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=amdfam10" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs 5" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news nodoc parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.virginmedia.com rsync://rsync.mirrorservice.org/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.virginmedia.com/sites/gentoo " LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j6" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/gamerlay /var/lib/layman/stintel /var/lib/layman/fouxlay /var/lib/layman/steam" SYNC="rsync://rsync.uk.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 apm apng bash-completion berkdb branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gbm gdbm gif glamor gpm gstreamer gtk hddtemp iconv icu imlib iostats ipv6 jpeg lastfm lcms libav libnotify lm_sensors lua-imlib mad mms mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mtp multilib ncurses nls nptl ntfs ogg opencl opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf pmu png policykit portmon ppds pulseaudio qt3support qt4 readline rtmp scanner sdl session spell sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg tcpd threads tiff truetype udev unicode usb v4l vorbis wxwidgets x264 xcb xinerama xml xv xvid zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="mmx sse sse2" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en en_GB" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19 ruby20" SANE_BACKENDS="hp" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON
Requiring lsusb is optional. From the help of hp-setup you will find it only uses lsusb as fallback option if no serial number or USB ID is provided. There are a few options to configure the printer without lsusb. With hp-probe you can find out the serial number, e.g.: hp:/usb/Photosmart_6510_series?serial=CN1CA4303D05QB HP Photosmart 6510 series hp-setup -i CN1CA4303D05QB From dmesg and sysfs you can obtain the bus and device number, e.g: [ 4373.661639] usb 1-6: new high-speed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd Bus and device number can be found here: cat /sys/bus/usb/devices/1-6/uevent BUSNUM=001 DEVNUM=009 hp-setup -i 001:009
Daniel, I didn't realise this, do as you will with the bug :)
