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Mint13 & Canon
G'day Folk's.
I just installed LinuxMint 13. 64 bit. I still have my Canon MP280. I went into Canon and downloaded the printer and xcanner drivers. I installed the printer drivers, and everything works fine. I installed the scanner drivers. Simple Scan can't find a scanner. So I installed XSane. Xsane can't find a scanner. I went into 'search' and typed "add scanner". It came up with :- Install. package 'argyll' package 'argyll :386' package 'bisonc++' I installed 'argyll' and 'bisonc++' 'Simple Scan' and 'XSane' still can't find a scanner. Does anybody know what I did wrong or what else I can do please? |
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I don't have any experience with this device, but this post look like it has a promising solution: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=76930
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Thank's for the idea Kage.
I decided to give up on Canon and look around for something else. because of the internet stories I've read, I started looking at HP printer/scanners. The cheapest wireless one I could find was $99-99. But then, I was walking through our local Aldi shop I saw a 'Lexmark S415'. On the box it said Windows, AppleMac and Linux (made in China, of course). Aldi's price for the Lexmark S415 was $49-99. So I bought it. Installing the Windows software was (by today's standards) very involved. But once installed it all worked fine. Printer, Scanner and Fax. There was no linux software. So I just plugged it in and booted up Ubuntu-Studio 12.04. It found both printer and scanner with no trouble at all. The printer works fine. But although Ubuntu-Studio found the scanner. The default scanner software can't find the scanner. I haven't tried the fax yet, I will worry about fax after I have scan sorted out. |
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According to this address.
http://www.bestbuybusiness.com/bbfb/...peration=Specs It works fine on Ubuntu 9.04. So I supposed that 12.04 would be fine. I have 8gb default RAM. So I am running 64 bit Ubuntu-Studio. Could that be the problem? Last edited by sladden; June 24th, 2012 at 08:28 AM. Reason: Bad spelling |
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Well, after fiddling around in Studio 12.04. Trying to make it recognise the Lexmark fax. Almost my entire computer froze.
The curser moved around the screen, by the laptop finger-stroker, but, nothing happened when I clicked it. The usb mouse just stopped being recognised. The download I was doing kept going. I couldn't look at it because I couldn't change desktops. Once the download finished. I shut-down. Left it for a few minutes and re-booted. Everything worked fine from the laptop buttons, but, ALL the usb ports had dissapeared. I tried re-booting. I even left it overnight. But, I couldn't get them back. So I moved the Linux-Mint-Cinnamon download (It was Mint-Mate that kept slowing down) from the download-folder into the Win7 partition. Rebooted into win7 and burned the disk. I have now replaced Studio with Cinnamon (this morning) and everything is working fine (except the scanner) It seems to be running very fast at the moment. I hope I can make the scanner work. I tried installing XSane, but can't find a scanner. I went onto Lexmark site and downloaded the latest printer and scanner software. Niether Simple-Scan or XSane can find a scanner to use. With XSane I got a message saying that my firewall needed - mdns, ipp, ipp-client and samba-client - enabled on the firewall. I can't work out how to do it. Can you help me please? |
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