Canon MG5520 wireless printer

[Ian Malone]

On 6 October 2014 01:50, Kevin Cummings <cummings at kjchome.homeip.net> wrote:
> My volleyball club just bought a new printer.
>
> When I plugged my laptop into the USB cable, CUPS tried to auto-install
> it, but it failed.  I saw multiple USB connects and disconnects in the
> log.  The last log entries in every series were disconnects.  The pop-up
> window claiming it was installing never went away, it just sat there.
>
> Next step, I googled the printer linux support, and found the canon
> linux print drivers.  I downloaded
> cnijfilter-mg5500series-4.00-1-rpm.tar.gz from Canon, untarred it, and
> ran the install.sh script.  After it finished, I can now print to the
> printer via USB cable.  (MG5500USB printer added to my system.)
>
> Next step, I made sure the printer was connected to the correct wireless
> network.  When I had, I can now print to the printer via AirPrint from
> my iPhone.
>
> Final step, I can't seem to make my laptop see the printer wirelessly.
> How can print to this printer without plugging into the USB cable?

Which version of Fedora and what desktop? I'm asking because I've used
one of the MG series over wifi before with Fedora but there were
issues with firewall policy and I think that was rather rapidly
changing (and it needs to couple with whatever autodetect is used).

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