Vidar Normann

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Here I plan on listing all of the hardware I have and how to get it working under Ubuntu/Kubuntu. The information is based on threads on www.ubuntuforums.org , other wiki-pages and my own experimenting.

Ralink Wireless Card w/WPA

This card is supported out-of-the-box in Dapper Drake, and what is even better is that the card's driver supports WPA! Yup, no need to use WPA_supplicant, but you will need to use a GUI that supports WPA (for example KWlan) or make the following changes to /etc/network/interfaces:

auto ra0
iface ra0 inet dhcp
pre-up iwconfig ra0 essid "youressid"
pre-up iwconfig ra0 mode managed
pre-up iwpriv ra0 set Channel=6
pre-up iwpriv ra0 set AuthMode=WPAPSK
pre-up iwpriv ra0 set EncrypType=TKIP
pre-up iwpriv ra0 set WPAPSK="yourpassword"
pre-up iwpriv ra0 set TxRate=0
ifup ra0

The changes you will have to make is to essid and WPAPSK and Channel, but also possibly to EncrypType if you use AES.

Canon i850 Printer (usb)

attachment:IconsPage/IconNote.png It would seem that the following currently does not work, although the i850 worked with a similar approach under Breezy. For now, when using Dapper, just choose Canon BJC-7000 driver when using Canon i850.

( based on http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=10540&highlight=i850 )

You will need alien installed (converts rpm files to deb) and wget, if these are not installed run the following:

sudo apt-get install alien wget libpng12-0

Currently you need to download rpms and convert to deb-packages to get this printer working. Get the necessary files:

wget ftp://download.canon.jp/pub/driver/bj/linux/bjfiltercups-2.2-1.i386.rpm
wget ftp://download.canon.jp/pub/driver/bj/linux/bjfilterpixus850i-2.2-1.i386.rpm

Then you can convert the files with the following commands:

sudo alien -c bjfilterpixus850i-2.2-1.i386.rpm
sudo alien bjfiltercups-2.2-1.i386.rpm

Install the deb packages:

sudo dpkg -i bjfilterpixus850i_2.2-2_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i bjfiltercups_2.2-2_i386.deb

You will need to restart CUPS to see the drivers in the list, run the following command:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 /usr/lib/libpng.so.2
sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys restart

Now add the printer, in Gnome this is done via System > System Settings > Printing or in KDE via System Settings > Printing. The printer is listed as Canon (brand( and PIXUS-850i (model). Print a test page to ensure it works. And you will now see your new driver in the list as PIXUS XXXi verX.X

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