Fun Things in Life

Problem: On my HP 8510p Laptop running Ubuntu 8.10, the key mapping for VMWare is screwed up.

Solution: Simple solution is to do

$ echo 'xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true’ > ~/.vmware/config

Problem: In my office I have a Canon LBP3300 with a network card configured.  It used to run with a Windows machine as a print server and now that it has a network card, I would like to print to it.  Apparently. it is not as simple as I think it would be on Ubuntu.

Solution: The installation steps for those who are interested:

1. Is easier to do everything as root
   $ sudo -i
2. Get the driver from Canon

   # wget http://software.canon-europe.com/files/soft31118/software/CAPTDRV180.tar.gz

3. Untar and install the driver

   # tar xf CAPTDRV180.tar.gz
# cd CANON_UK/Driver/Debian
# dpkg -i cndrvcups-capt_1.80-1_i386.deb cndrvcups-common_1.80-1_i386.deb
# /etc/init.d/cups stop
# mkdir /var/ccpd
# mkdir /var/captmon
# mkfifo /var/ccpd/fifo0
# chmod 777 /var/ccpd/fifo0
# chown root /var/ccpd/fifo0
# chmod -R a+rX /usr/share/cups/model
# /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p LBP3300 -m CNCUPSLBP3300CAPTK.ppd -v ccp:/var/ccpd/fifo0 -E
# /usr/sbin/ccpdadmin -p LBP3300 -o net:192.168.1.200

4. Now apparmour in Ubuntu create a bit of problem for the driver and need to be addressed:

   # vi /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.cupsd----- /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.cupsd -----
/var/run/cups/ rw,
/var/run/cups/** rw,
/var/spool/cups/ rw,
/var/spool/cups/** rw,
# needed for Canon CAPT driver ### <-----insert
/var/ccpd/** rw, ### <-----insert
# third-party printer drivers; no known structure here
/opt/** rix,
----- /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.cupsd -----

5. Start the services which we stopped before

   # /etc/init.d/cups start
# /etc/init.d/ccpd start
# /etc/init.d/apparmor restart

6. You should be fine from here.