On 10 Jul 2009 at 0:02, Wulfy wrote: > > My printer died so I bought a new one. It's a Canon PIXMA iP2500. My > Kubuntu Jaunty set-up recognises the printer and correctly identifies > it, but it refuses to talk to it. Requesting a test page causes the > lights to flash but no page to appear. > > I went to the Canon site and there's a driver for it. Unfortunately, > it's a Fedora driver and for i386 architecture and I'm running 64-bit > Kubuntu. Alien bombs out with a 'wrong architecture' error. I even > tried installing VirtualBox to try and run it under WinXP... I couldn't > get the USB connection to work. :@( > > Does anyone have any ideas how to get this printer running or is it a > paper-weight? > > wu...@wulfy-desktop:~$ uname -a > Linux wulfy-desktop 2.6.28-13-generic #45-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 30 22:12:12 > UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > -- > Blessings > > Wulfmann > > Wulf Credo: > Respect the elders. Teach the young. Co-operate with the pack. > Play when you can. Hunt when you must. Rest in between. > Share your affections. Voice your opinion. Leave your Mark. > Copyright July 17, 1988 by Del Goetz >
For printers, I always go to www.linuxprinting.org. Their entry for this printer is http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Canon- PIXMA_iP2500 It says to use 'Canon driver from Canon website'. Which is here http://software.canon-europe.com/software/0027215.asp Is that what you tried? Tony -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
