ya, looks like this guy need a bit of hand-holding. I have Ubuntu 8.04 on my IBM X300 and it detected and conntect to my Canon IS860 out of box, as well as printing/scanning via USB from my Brother MFC-5440CN. Printing via IP network on cups also no issue but printing to SMB printer seems flaky (but that may have to do with SMB).
Maybe I can suggest we invite him to this coming Wed Linux Meetup at SMU? There should be enough experts at hand to hand hold him Stephan suggestion of him getting a Ubuntu liveCD is a good one. I will be happy to burn him a copy and save him effort of downloading. Darrel ----- Original Message ---- From: Stephan M. February <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Harish Pillay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Singapore LInux Users' Group Mailing List <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 4:56:50 PM Subject: Re: [Slugnet] Support question from a digital life reader Harish Pillay wrote: > ==================================================================== > I am facing the problem like after the installation, these so call free OS > does not support my Canon printer IP5200 and my Canon Scanner Lide20 and > unable to link and download photos from my DSLR Canon 400D. > Having personally released a patch which was integrated into the main Sane SVN for the Canon Lide25 scanner circa Sept 2005, I can safely say that this scanner *does* work under any recent version of Sane. My suggestion is that this user grabs something like the latest Ubuntu LiveCD and give that a spin. Ubuntu is excellent at detecting my Digital Cameras and had no problem finding my Lide25. Without knowing exactly which distro this user is having problems with, it's difficult to come up with a proper response. Cheers Stephan _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
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