On 6 October 2014 16:52, Louis Lagendijk <louis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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... > It's why I'm asking about Fedora versions, when I ran into this I had one part of the system wanting to run firewalld and at the same time firewalld configuration tools weren't really ready (so you couldn't have it on and manually configure it, or something along those lines). The situation should have improved by now. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- 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
