no connection: Canon MP520 & sues 11.1

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Hello,
I installed SuSE 11.1/KDE 4.1 after my Ubuntu and my bank account has been hacked.
While it worked well under Ubuntu my canon MP 520 doesn’t work with SuSE.
I installed it with yast and also with cups: everything is activ, tasks get accepted but nothing reaches the printer:

this is the note from cups:

describtion: MP520
localisation: cnijusb:/dev/usb/lp0   (because of a forumnote I eliminated the underline from cnij_jusb)
model: Canon MP520 series Ver.2.80
printerstatus: working, accepting tasks, publicating. 
device URI: usb:/dev/usb/lp0 
MP520 (Standarddrucker) "Drucker ist nicht verbunden ...

this is the connection:

wsra@linux-xaz9:~> lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04a9:1724 Canon, Inc.
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On Mon March 2 2009 07:26 am, wsra wrote:

>
> Hello,
> I installed suse 11.1 after my ubuntu and my bank account has been
> hacked.
> While it worked well under ubuntu my canon MP 520 doesn’t work with
> suse.
> I installed it with yast and also with cups: everything is activ, tasks
> get accepted but nothing reaches the printer:
>
> this is the note from cups:
>
<snip>
wsra;
Open printing has two entries for the MP-520. With two different drivers.
Have you tried either or both of these?

http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Canon-MP520
http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Canon-MULTIPASS-MP520

If you have x86_64 bit system it is possible you need to set a link for the
cannon driver(s), that lie in /usr/lib/cups/filter, in /usr/lib64/cups/filter

For some printers, YAST does not seem to install things properly. Have you
tried removing the printer first before installing with CUPS?

Finally, if non of this helps look at the cups logs in /var/log/cups to see if
there are any error messages. (Actually you should do this first)

P. V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green

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Hi

PV has given you some very good pointers there;

Canon inkjet printers need proprietary drivers; Canon are now increasingly making them available;

but the new 11.1 version of OPenSuse seems to have given some users problems;

Canon MP540 and libusb - openSUSE Forums

If you go to the Canon Asia site, this page

Canon

shows you three separate drivers that you need: carefully pick them out from the many offered on the linux page

  1. IJ Printer Driver Ver. 2.80 for Linux(rpm Common package)

and

  1. IJ Printer Driver Ver. 2.80 for Linux(rpm Package for MP520series).

and

  1. ScanGear MP Ver. 1.10 for Linux(Source file). to drive the scanner section

so download those to a folder that you have, or should create called something like downloads

You need to install the Common package first, and then the specific package for the MP520

to install, you would be best opening a terminal;

so you need to change directory to that downloads folder

eg

cd downloads

when in that directory, you need to assume rootly powers, as swerdna would say; enter su in the terminal, and then enter your root password;

and then

rpm -Uvh *.rpm

where * is the name of the common package firstly;

then do the same for the MP520 printer driver

Now to ScanGear MP

in the above post

rpm -i scangearmp-common-1.20-1.i386.rpm --nodep

works for the scanner;

Do tell us if you are using 32bit or 64bit Suse; you may need others symbolic links

see if the above is of help to you; let us know how you get along

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Thank you for your help:
it showed me more paths
I deleted all drivers within yast, installed from canon again “cnijfilter-common…rpm” and"cnijfilter-mp520…rpm", found the canon-.ppd-driver in share/cups/model and inserted it in the yast driver installation form.
Now it works.

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great; delighted to hear it all worked well done; it is very hard to remember to give all the possible instructions; you said you have worked on Ubuntu so your knowledge there must have helped;

welcome to the OpenSuse forums