CUPS does not recognize CANON MP 220 printer

[Martin Beltov]

Binary package hint: cups

Cups does not recognize my Canon MP 220 printer when I plugin the usb cable. It doesn't see it at all.
Instead it mounts internal the card reader

dmesg:
[ 90.728069] usb 2-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
[ 90.863053] usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 90.992260] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[ 90.992468] scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[ 90.992606] usb-storage: device found at 2
[ 90.992610] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[ 90.992626] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[ 90.992631] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[ 95.992812] usb-storage: device scan complete
[ 95.995148] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access Canon MP220 series 1050 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[ 96.000933] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[ 96.010255] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 101.394149] ERROR!!! RTMPCancelTimer failed, Timer hasn't been initialize!
[ 110.660092] ===>rt_ioctl_giwscan. 9(9) BSS returned, data->length = 1019
[ 110.660392] ==>rt_ioctl_siwfreq::SIOCSIWFREQ[cmd=0x8b04] (Channel=6)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Sep 29 20:17:15 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Lpstat: Error: command ['lpstat', '-v'] failed with exit code 1: lpstat: No destinations added.
MachineType: Acer Aspire 5737Z
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: cups 1.4.1-2
Papersize: letter
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-11-generic root=UUID=720dde5d-768e-40c1-bd8e-5bfe98bd4a14 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
SourcePackage: cups
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686
dmi.bios.date: 06/22/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Acer
dmi.bios.version: V1.10
dmi.board.name: KALA0
dmi.board.vendor: Acer
dmi.board.version: N/A
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAcer:bvrV1.10:bd06/22/2009:svnAcer:pnAspire5737Z:pvrV1.10:rvnAcer:rnKALA0:rvrN/A:cvnAcer:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: Aspire 5737Z
dmi.product.version: V1.10
dmi.sys.vendor: Acer

[Martin Beltov (mbeltov)]

udev monitor log :

KERNEL[1254249561.664331] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.1/usb2/2-2 (usb)
KERNEL[1254249561.665177] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.1/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0 (usb)
KERNEL[1254249561.665226] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.1/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.1 (usb)
KERNEL[1254249561.665262] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.1/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.2 (usb)
KERNEL[1254249561.665696] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.1/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.2/host10 (scsi)
KERNEL[1254249561.665733] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.1/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.2/host10/scsi_host/host10 (scsi_host)
UDEV [1254249561.674319] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.1/usb2/2-2 (usb)
UDEV [1254249561.684790] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.1/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.2 (usb)
UDEV [1254249561.693737] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.1/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0 (usb)
UDEV [1254249561.704217] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.1/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.2/host10 (scsi)
UDEV [1254249561.705026] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.1/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.2/host10/scsi_host/host10 (scsi_host)
UDEV [1254249561.708861] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.1/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.1 (usb)
KERNEL[1254249566.674079] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.1/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.2/host10/target10:0:0 (scsi)
KERNEL[1254249566.674134] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.1/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.2/host10/target10:0:0/10:0:0:0 (scsi)
KERNEL[1254249566.674165] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.1/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.2/host10/target10:0:0/10:0:0:0/scsi_disk/10:0:0:0 (scsi_disk)
KERNEL[1254249566.674195] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.1/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.2/host10/target10:0:0/10:0:0:0/scsi_device/10:0:0:0 (scsi_device)
KERNEL[1254249566.674288] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.1/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.2/host10/target10:0:0/10:0:0:0/scsi_generic/sg2 (scsi_generic)
UDEV [1254249566.674739] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.1/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.2/host10/target10:0:0 (scsi)
UDEV [1254249566.675276] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.1/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.2/host10/target10:0:0/10:0:0:0 (scsi)
UDEV [1254249566.675910] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.1/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.2/host10/target10:0:0/10:0:0:0/scsi_device/10:0:0:0 (scsi_device)
UDEV [1254249566.676917] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.1/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.2/host10/target10:0:0/10:0:0:0/scsi_generic/sg2 (scsi_generic)
KERNEL[1254249566.679598] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.1/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.2/host10/target10:0:0/10:0:0:0/block/sdb (block)
UDEV [1254249566.682642] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.1/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.2/host10/target10:0:0/10:0:0:0/scsi_disk/10:0:0:0 (scsi_disk)
KERNEL[1254249566.682811] add /devices/virtual/bdi/8:16 (bdi)
UDEV [1254249566.683080] add /devices/virtual/bdi/8:16 (bdi)
UDEV [1254249567.872219] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.1/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.2/host10/target10:0:0/10:0:0:0/block/sdb (block)

[Steven Harms (sharms)]

This is likely bug #420015 which will be fixed after first beta. For fun try this:

Run:
lsusb

and look for the line of your printer. The printer has a Bus and a Device number. Now run

sudo chgrp lp /dev/bus/usb/<bus number>/<device number>
sudo chmod 664 /dev/bus/usb/<bus number>/<device number>

with <bus number> and <device number> being padded with zeros to be always of 3 digits (8 -> 008, 11 -> 011, ...).

Example:

till@till-laptop:~/ubuntu/cups/bzr/debian-trunk$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 029: ID 03f0:1c02 Hewlett-Packard PhotoSmart A710 series
till@till-laptop:~/ubuntu/cups/bzr/debian-trunk$ sudo chgrp lp /dev/bus/usb/002/029
till@till-laptop:~/ubuntu/cups/bzr/debian-trunk$ sudo chmod 664 /dev/bus/usb/002/029

Then try to add a print queue and print to it. Does it work?

[Martin Beltov (mbeltov)]

No I get the same result

[Martin Beltov (mbeltov)]

Oh sorry it appeared .Thanks for the fix