XP to Linux Mint questions

debitcardmayhem

enter the ip address of your printer if it is ip enabled or if it is shared on your other pc then //pcname/sharedname
or use find printer on network printer

Norman_Castle

esuhl wrote: »

Linux-users tend to be more technically competent than Windows-users, so there isn't the demand to make things trivially easy.

Linux users have to be more computer literate. They have no choice.
I'm not sure if Linux would like their OS to be more widely used. If they do, making things trivially easy, or work properly, would help.

I suspect many people will try linux and give up when dealing with problems like this. Typing code into boxes feels very primitive, shouldn't be needed, and to me is totally unrewarding.
Years ago I had an early Sinclare Spectrum. It came with a booklet containing code which could be typed in to create a basic programme. Thanks, but the games are much more fun.

AndyPix

Norman_Castle wrote: »

Typing code into boxes feels very primitive, shouldn't be needed, and to me is totally unrewarding. .

It sounds like linux might not be for you.


Typing code into boxes is the oposite of primitive, you are taking one step closer to the way the computer works.
Embrace it ..... OR install windows 10

GunJack

AndyPix wrote: »

OR install windows 10

Oy!! We'll have no bad language in this thread please

henm2

Looks like someone_else had lsuccess with setting up Samsung CLP 325 with Linux mint http://www.mintppc.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=263

Norman_Castle

AndyPix wrote: »

It sounds like linux might not be for you.

Typing code into boxes is the oposite of primitive, you are taking one step closer to the way the computer works.

Well spotted:rotfl:. I tried linux because XP is not supported. Its the need to type code into boxes that seems primitive. I don't need a new hobby. I don't want to join computer club. I just want a printer that works.

AndyPix

If i were you i would just install windows 10 (Sorry GunJack )

esuhl

Norman_Castle wrote: »

I'm not sure if Linux would like their OS to be more widely used. If they do, making things trivially easy, or work properly, would help.

GNU/Linux is probably the most widely used operating system on the planet as it's on so many servers... and now media devices, and even Android phones have Linux (although without GNU).

Being open source, no one really cares whether you use it. It's not a product that's sold or licensed -- Linux is free.

Norman_Castle wrote: »

I suspect many people will try linux and give up when dealing with problems like this. Typing code into boxes feels very primitive, shouldn't be needed, and to me is totally unrewarding.

Everything in GNU/Linux is (conceptually) a text file: documents, directories, devices, modems, printers, etc.:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_is_a_file

So if you want to interact with it more directly, it's often quicker and easier to type a text command.

Norman_Castle wrote: »

Years ago I had an early Sinclare Spectrum. It came with a booklet containing code which could be typed in to create a basic programme. Thanks, but the games are much more fun.

If typing commands puts you off, then Linux probably isn't for you.

GunJack

Must admit I've been following this thread with interest as I've the exact same situation with an old lappy I've put Mint on... everything working including flash for internet radio!!

However, it won't play with my XP-225 printer. I got further this morning by trying a generic driver - lappy can now connect to the printer over the network, but it can't print properly. When searching for a driver mint recons it's found an epson driver for linux but then it just hangs when trying to install it :mad:

I have to say the printer is non-essential (as the lappy will probably end up on my desk in work for internet radio purposes), it would have just been a nice-to-have for when it's at home.

so Norman I feel your pain

...but I still wouldn't resort to W10

Moon_Keh

Norman_Castle wrote: »

Lifes to short for this.

Life is definitely not too short for this! I wanted a separate Windows machine "just in case" and have sweated and sworn over resurrecting XP for several weeks, after which I just turned the machine off and went to my main Linux PC. Sure, sometimes Linux is a pain in the backside, but then so is everything, sometimes. Personally, I'd rather have a vindaloo enema than see XP again.

Trust me, you don't have to be more computer literate to use Linux. I go into it with the approach of "how hard can it be?" - I might learn something (although I usually settle for not being scared of it). Biggest problem with printers is that you only do it every so often: by the time I come to do it I've forgotten what I did.

I found some instructions in the manual for this printer (located online), but they may as well be in Welsh (or any other language I don't know).

As far as I can see, the start to finish is:

1) Download Linux driver from location stated by Fightsback above. The file that downloads should be called uld_v1.00.36_00.91.tar.gz (an archive of a very common type known in Linux as a tarball).

2) Connect printer and PC via USB cable, and turn on both.

3) Make a folder on your desktop and call it what you like. Move the file you downloaded in (1) into your new folder.

4) Double click on the file you've just moved. That'll fire up your archive manager. A window should open, containing one entry: a folder called uld. Highlight that and click on "Extract", which should be a button on a toolbar towards the top of the window. Extract to the folder created in (3).

5) A folder called uld (Universal Linux Driver) should have appeared in the folder created in (3), alongside the archive file you've just extracted. Double click on the folder called uld.

6) You should now see three folders and six .sh files (.sh is called a shell script - it'll action a few small tasks for you). You want install-printer.sh to install a printer (surprise!).

5) Double clicking on install-printer.sh should get you questioned as to what you want to do with the file. Select "Execute in Terminal" and your favourite thing appears.

6) You now need to type in the terminal:

sudo bash install-printer.sh

sudo gives you root privileges for the operation you're about to perform and I can't remember what the hell bash is but you need to type that or the shell script won't run. Remember what I said about not knowing but not being scared?

7) You will then be asked for your password. Type it in and press Enter.

Importantly, when you type in your password, it will appear as if nothing is happening in the terminal. The terminal maintains the secrecy of your password not by showing a line of stars as you type (thus giving away your password length to an onlooker), but by showing nothing at all.

8) You should now see something happening in the terminal. After a short while, queries that require short responses should appear. Tell it what it wants to know. Driver now on your PC fine.

9) Now to install. Go to that place you were having trouble with (said "Enter URI" or something like that). It's Start > System Tools > Printers on mine, I can't remember where it was on Mint because that was a year ago, before my "upgrade/downgrade".

10) Click on "Add" and do nothing, just wait. The machine is searching for your printer. You might see a little hourglass or some sort of small rotating graphic in the bottom left of that window. Give it a couple of minutes (max) and a list should appear. Your printer will be in it, or some description of a printer that sounds like yours will be there. Select it and it should be self explanatory from here on in, and all information should have been gathered by that search you just waited for. After a couple of steps it'll ask if you want to print a test page and if that works you'll be home and dry.

I've just installed my wife's Canon printer on my Linux PC and the above is a commentary on what I did. I've got Lubuntu not Mint but this shouldn't be an issue: As two forks of Debian, they share a common heritage.

You may find more help if you join the Linux Mint forum (at https://forums.linuxmint.com/).

Took me so long to write that (doing other things!) that you've probably either fixed it or given up.