Canon MX510 series almost work but...

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killbiitch

Hello the forum!

I've bought a wireless and multifonction printer (with scanner, copy..): a Canon PIXMAN MX510 series
I've successfully installed it with CUPS and I can print a test page. I can even print with openoffice!! (Well that's pretty cool!)

But who can do more can do less right?..
The command line input "lpstat -p" gives "printer MPX510 is idle. enabled since sam 9 fév 17:12:04 2013", and when I try to print a text document with lp or lpr it says me "unknown printer"

Hum...

Concerning the sanner I've installed sane-frontends and backends by ports. I even installed xsane.
scanimage -L gives "device `pixma:MX510_192.168.0.15' is a CANON Canon PIXMA MX510 Series multi-function peripheral".
So I thought it was quite ok but scanimage gives me "scanimage: open of device pixma:MX510_192.168.0.15 failed: Operation not supported".
Same result with xane.
This is my first configuration of a multifonction wireless printer with FreeBSD and that's a big job :)

I've tried to configure /usr/local/etc/sane.d/saned.conf with allowing ip adresses of my computers on network but it didn't change anything.
Look likes I'm not enough good to do it !^^

I'm sure that I forgot something stupid .. I've spent my afternoon on google and the handbook. Could not resolve it...

Someone of my big brothers could help?

See you soon
 
For printing, make sure you are using the CUPS versions of the lp* commands.
Hint: they live in /usr/local/bin, not /usr/bin.
On my own workstation I just renamed the original commands so that they wouldn't interfere:
Code: 
tingo@kg-v2$ ls -l /usr/bin/*.bsd
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    2747 Apr 28  2012 /usr/bin/lp.bsd
-r-sr-sr-x  1 root  daemon  34264 Apr 28  2012 /usr/bin/lpq.bsd
-r-sr-sr-x  1 root  daemon  38296 Apr 28  2012 /usr/bin/lpr.bsd
-r-sr-sr-x  1 root  daemon  30280 Apr 28  2012 /usr/bin/lprm.bsd
The only downside is that I have to do this fixup on every upgrade of FreeBSD. I usually remember the first time I try to print after an upgrade. :-)
 
Thank you both very much

That's ok for printing now with /usr/local/bin/lpr (or lp)
For printing we can say that's resolved.

But I don't understand in the handbook it says if FreeBSD detects your scanner with "scanimage -L" you should be able to use your scanner (with sane, xsane...)
And I'm very embarassed because scanimage (or any software for scanning)gives "open of device pixma:MX510_192.168.0.15 failed: Operation not supported"
 
Hello tingo,

scanimage -L works if I'm root or non root user and gives "device `pixma:MX510_192.168.0.15' is a CANON Canon PIXMA MX510 Series multi-function peripheral".
This is scanimage or xsane which don't work (if I'm root or not)
 
Hello Torfinn, thanks for your help
scanimage -T gives the same result:
Code: 
scanimage: open of device pixma:MX510_192.168.0.15 failed: Operation not supported
In fact only scanimage -L gives something interesting (it finds my scanner... that which gave me hope.. at the beginning!)


Well sane-pixma(5) man pages says that my scanner is supported. It says so much things that I can't understand with so much options and configuration.. but something caught my attention:

Code: 
FILES
       /usr/local/etc/sane.d
              This  directory holds various configuration files.  For details,
              please refer to the manual pages listed below.

       ~/.sane/pass
              This file contains lines of the form

              user:password:resource

              scanimage uses this information  to  answer  user  authorization
              requests  automatically.  The file must have 0600 permissions or
              stricter. You should use  this  file  in  conjunction  with  the
              --accept-md5-only  option  to  avoid  server-side  attacks.  The
              resource may contain any character but is limited to 127 charac-
              ters.

Maybe a configuration that I don't know (don't able to do) in /usr/local/saned.d/saned.conf.

And the file ~/.sane/pass doesn't exist.. maybe I have to create and edit it with 0660 permissions but I don't know how to write it.
Maybe something like
Code: 
add path '...' mode 0660 group operator
like in devfs.rules.

Or maybe what I think is stupid, it's frustrating to be such a zero !! ^^

Thanks anyway for the help you're trying to bring me :)
 
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