[HowTo] Setup TinyCore+CUPS+AirPrint (+HPLIP+BCM43 for Acer AOD150 & HP LJ1000)

[Chatty]

Attention: This thread is work in progress - feel free to give hints to make this solution fully independent of "written elsewhere expert knowledge".

• Format an USB key (assumed drive letter E:) to FAT32, create a "boot" directory, then make it bootable via syslinux -d boot E:
• Create E:\syslinux.cfg with this contents (find out UUID by vol E:):
  DEFAULT core
  LABEL core
  KERNEL /boot/vmlinuz
  APPEND initrd=/boot/core.gz quiet tce=UUID="7EED-CED0" opt=UUID="7EED-CED0" waitusb=5:UUID="7EED-CED0"
  
• Create E:\boot\vmlinuz with the file extracted from Core.iso.
• Create E:\boot\core.gz with the file extracted from Core.iso.
• Create E:\tce\onboot.lst with this contents:
  avahi.tcz
  cups.tcz
  libusb.tcz
  libusb-compat.tcz
  hplip.tcz
  pycups.tcz
• Create E:\tce\optional\ and fill with necessary extensions, e.g. downloaded with curl.
  curl -O http://ftp.vim.org/os/Linux/distr/tinycorelinux/5.x/x86/tcz/{expat2,nss-mdns,libdaemon,libffi,glib2,gcc_libs,dbus,libavahi,avahi,libpng,freetype,fontconfig,libjpeg-turbo,liblzma,libtiff,lcms2,openssl-1.0.0,libcups,ghostscript,bzip2-lib,pcre,qpdf,udev-lib,libpciaccess,libdrm,libXdmcp,libXau,libxcb,libX11,libXext,libXxf86vm,libXfixes,libXdamage,libGL,libXrender,pixman,cairo,poppler,ijs,cups-filters,cups,libusb,libusb-compat,libsane,readline,ncurses-common,ncurses,gdbm,tcl,libXss,libXft,tk,sqlite3,python,dbus-glib,dbus-python,net-snmp,hplip,pycups,firmware-broadcom_bcm43xx}.{dep,tcz,tcz.md5.txt}
• Create E:\opt\bootlocal.sh with this contents: *not supported on FAT32*
  sudo sed -i -e "s/Listen localhost:/Port /" -e "s/Order allow,deny/Order allow,deny\n  Allow @LOCAL/" -e "s/Basic/Basic\nDefaultEncryption Never/" /usr/local/etc/cups/cupsd.conf
  sudo /usr/local/etc/init.d/cups start
• unfinished: have printer firmware loaded automatically
• unfinished: setup printer in CUPS
• unfinished: enable AirPrint

The following issues have to be overcome yet:

• HPLIP.tcz is dependend on LIBUSB-COMPAT.tcz
• accessing https://box:631/admin fails --> encryption requirement switched off
• physically connecting the printer leads to udevd[PID]: failed to execute '/lib/udev/bin/sh' 'bin/sh -c '/usr/local/bin/hp-mkuri -c &'': No such file or directory
• trying to print a test page fails because LJ1000 requires "proprietary plugin", hp-plugin fails to run this but /bin/sh hplip-3.11.5-plugin.run --noexec --keep && plugin_tmp/hplip-plugin-install works - still CUPS pretends Filter failed, hp-testpage says Channel read error, hp-check says hpijs-install=no but this printer needs hpijs

[Juanito]

Have you seen this:

http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,9633.msg53740.html#msg53740

[Chatty]

@Juanito: I saw this thread already but linked to another wiki which describes the necessary steps in more detail.

I don't doubt the linked information from your thread will work. But I want to create a start-from-scratch manual to get a fully working AirPrint server.