Printing with Epson L366 device

Q&A
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Hello. I have a multifunctional device “Epson L366”.
This device works great as example in Ubuntu and other Linux distros. But not in Clear Linux.
Manufacturer has a driver for Linux kernel. I have installed it via rpm package. As I understand an outpout if “rpm” the package was installed successfully. But when I connect my device via USB. the device not recognized via CUPS (works in other distoros with same kernel versions). In “dmesg” after connectiong a device I see a strange messages:

[  129.927159] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 8 using xhci_hcd
[  130.062142] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=04b8, idProduct=08d2, bcdDevice= 1.00
[  130.062144] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[  130.062145] usb 1-1: Product: EPSON L366 Series
[  130.062146] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: EPSON
[  130.062147] usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 5648384B3031323306
[  130.072933] usblp 1-1:1.1: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 8 if 1 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x04B8 pid 0x08D2
[  130.072949] probe of 1-1:1.1 returned 1 after 4564 usecs
[  130.072963] probe of 1-1 returned 1 after 10737 usecs

Seems something wrong with drivers. But I can not find any solution or same info about same things…
Can anyone help me to solve this issue?

2

Sorry, the problem is solved, problem was in cups not in drivers. I need just add a printer device /dev/lp0 manually in cups administration interface and select right model and PPD file for my printer.

3

Glad you got it figured out. Welcome to the forums!

4

Could you please detail how you did this (and where you access the cups administration interface for those of us who are new to Linux? Thanks!

5

Hi can you tell me how did you install the RPM driver in CL?

I am trying to compile from source the drivers and I cant because missing CUPS config.

When I run ./configure I get:

checking cups/cups.h usability… no
checking cups/cups.h presence… no
checking for cups/cups.h… no
checking cups/ppd.h usability… no
checking cups/ppd.h presence… no
checking for cups/ppd.h… no
checking cups/raster.h usability… no
checking cups/raster.h presence… no
checking for cups/raster.h… no

Then, when I run make I get an error:

wrapper.c:25:10: fatal error: cups/cups.h: Does not exist file or directory
25 | #include <cups/cups.h>
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
If anyone can help me to install the driver via RPM or compiling I will appreciate it too much

Thank you.

BJDS

6

for rpm in your_package.rpm ; do rpm2cpio $rpm | ( cd /; sudo cpio -idv ); done

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Thank you very much,