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Missing Drivers for Scanner Canon MP160

Asked by jr

I'm having trouble getting my scanner to work. I have a Canon MP160 printer and within this printer there is a scanner. Under the Windows os, I simply clicked the scan button and it fired up. However, now that I've installed Ubuntu the right driver must not be installed or something because nothing happens. Lucid recognizes the printer fine, but how do I get the scanner working? Thanks in advance! I'm new at this.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Canon support is a little patchy, lets see what we can find. It's also a Canon PIXMA MP160. Please do not truncate product names.

Theres scangear from Canon:
http://software.canon-europe.com/software/0028481.asp

I believe it is only 32bit so you may have to use a 32bit Ubuntu

Install scangearmp-common_1.10-1_i386.deb first, then scangearmp-mp210series_1.10-1_i386.deb

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jr (joscelynrose) said : 		#2

Thank you, I believe i am using 32bit.

I tried to install scangearmp-common_1.10-1_i386.deb and it's not working. I went to the link you gave me, clicked on the file under downloads, checked the "I accept" box and clicked "download software." It said "starting downloading process" and then firefox told me the server wasn't foudn.

So, I thought I'd try to install it through the command line. I entered "sudo dpkg -i ./scangearmp-common_1.10-1_i386.deb" and it said " cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
 ./scangearmp-common_1.10-1_i386.deb"

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

then your pwd is not the same as the file. You need to use cd to change directory to the one the file is stored in. You can check your architecture with:

uname -m

i686 == 32bit
x86_64 == 64bit

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