On Sun, Oct 05, 2014 at 10:03:51PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote:
off-list reply...
Oops. I MEANT this to not go to the list since it h ad more questions than answers...
Hi Kevin!
On Sun, Oct 05, 2014 at 08:50:43PM -0400, Kevin Cummings wrote:
My volleyball club just bought a new printer.
Glad to see you're staying busy!
When I plugged my laptop into the USB cable, CUPS tried to auto-install it, but it failed. I saw multiple USB connects and disconnects in the log. The last log entries in every series were disconnects. The pop-up window claiming it was installing never went away, it just sat there.
Next step, I googled the printer linux support, and found the canon linux print drivers. I downloaded cnijfilter-mg5500series-4.00-1-rpm.tar.gz from Canon, untarred it, and ran the install.sh script. After it finished, I can now print to the printer via USB cable. (MG5500USB printer added to my system.)
Next step, I made sure the printer was connected to the correct wireless network. When I had, I can now print to the printer via AirPrint from my iPhone.
Final step, I can't seem to make my laptop see the printer wirelessly. How can print to this printer without plugging into the USB cable?
I've never used a wireless printer, I wonder if your wifi hardware has to disconnect from whatever WAP it's talking to in order to connect to the wireless printer? or is it (and the Linux drivers) a lot smarter than I think? Do you have to set it up like any other WAP? or is it magic? :)
-- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
------------------------------ Philippians 4:13 -------------------------------
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