


Waited for test page, breathing huge sigh of relief. Selected and applied.īack on Printer Properties… popup On the popup window "Change Device URI" I selected Network Printer and then Find Network PrinterĪfter waiting a bit, Canon MG5300(MG5320LAN…)(Current) showed up. page that opened, to the right of "Device URI:" text box containing the MAC address et al, pressed the button named Change….Selected the printer MG5300LAN and from the Printing window menu bar Selected Printer>Properties. Opened from the Ubuntu main menu System>Administration>Printing usr/sbin/lpadmin -p MG5300LAN -m canonmg5300.ppd -v cnijnet:/XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX -EĪt this point the rudimentary steps ended, and I relied on the last hope of the ignorant, stumbling around ⋯ and it worked. Opened a terminal and ran these commands (where XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX is the MAC address of the printer. Press the function button under "setup" wobble pointer left to "Device Settings" Select "LAN settings" select "Confirm LAN settings" select WLAN setting list wobble button down to MAC address. UPDATE: To find the MAC address: use the wobble pointer (around the OK button) up to where it shows setup. This was for the 64bit Ubuntu, the other two in the folder are for the 32 bit Ubuntu. Uncompressed the folder cnijfilter-mg5300series-3.60-1-deb to my Desktop.įrom the folder Packages installed the packages cnijfilter-common_3.60-1_b and cnijfilter-mg5300series_3.60-1_b in that order. I found this " manual" which gave rudimentry steps for installing not using the "script". How do I install thei printer using the LAN with wireless AP? This is free software see the GNU General Public License version 2 or sudo dpkg -versionĭebian `dpkg' package management program version 1.15.8.4ubuntu1 (amd64). The package management system cannot be identified." A glance at the install script shows testing for dpkg… dpkg -version 1> /dev/null 2>&1Īnd then tests and exits at… if || then The install script fails on my amd64 10.10 with the error "An error occurred. The Canon linux drivers from provides drivers and an install script. The ppa:michael-gruz/canon does not (yet) have drivers for the MG5300 series. I am trying to install drivers to get them to work. I have a new MG5320 printer, and several ubuntu computers on my local network.
