On Mon, 2014-10-06 at 08:55 +0100, Ian Malone wrote: > On 6 October 2014 01:50, Kevin Cummings <cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > My volleyball club just bought a new printer. > > > > 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? > > Which version of Fedora and what desktop? I'm asking because I've used > one of the MG series over wifi before with Fedora but there were > issues with firewall policy and I think that was rather rapidly > changing (and it needs to couple with whatever autodetect is used). Be sure to open the firewall for UDP port 8611, so autodetection works. And you need to install cups-bjnp so CUPS knows how to talk to the printer... -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
