- #CANON MP640 PRINTER NOT RESPONDING WIRELESS INSTALL#
- #CANON MP640 PRINTER NOT RESPONDING WIRELESS DRIVERS#
#CANON MP640 PRINTER NOT RESPONDING WIRELESS INSTALL#
Only when I realized that I needed to first install cnijfilter-common alone, and then come back later, to install cnijfilter-mp640, was I able to get the printer working with one (known) exception (specified below), it has worked (mostly) flawlessly, since. Pamac correctly identifies that “cnijfilter-mp640” depends on “cnijfilter-common”, but then blithely tries to build and install the former, before the latter, (which isn’t possible, because the dependency is not resolved at cnijfilter-mp640 build time, the build fails, and installation of both is immediately aborted. The problem - which is surely a pacman/pamac bug - arises because the driver is split into two “cnijfilter” packages one is specific the MP640, while the other is common to several cnijfilter drivers. There is support in AUR, which failed to build and install, when I first tried it.
#CANON MP640 PRINTER NOT RESPONDING WIRELESS DRIVERS#
The original Canon drivers are 32-bit, and published only in DEB and RPM formats. I found setting this printer up on Manjaro to be rather tricky. Eleven years ago this was not the case it was classified as “fully supported”, and my experience shows that it remains so today - the reclassification as “paperweight” is clearly wrong! (However, the GutenPrint drivers do tend to make it behave as a “paperweight” - to attain “fully supported” status, one must use the drivers published by Canon themselves). Today, appears to classify the PIXMA MP640 as a “paperweight”. I purchased this printer eleven years ago, and it has served me well ever since, in identically the same configuration, with all three laptops. The printer in question is a Canon PIXMA MP640, hard wired via cat-5 ethernet cable, to my home wireless network hub.
![canon mp640 printer not responding wireless canon mp640 printer not responding wireless](https://contactforhelp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/01-2-2.jpg)
I’ve been running Manjaro-Xfce, on my HP 64-bit laptop, since September 2019 prior to that, I had been running various versions of LinuxMint-Mate, on Lenovo 32-bit and Acer 64-bit laptops.