Epson Workforce 610 Wireless install with Arch

[rj586b]

Hello,

Long time no chat. I just installed Arch but I am a bit stuck on getting my wireless printer working. I have the scan setup and it works. I used to cups wiki (wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cups#Installing) for the install but I am having trouble with it because I need the x86_64 driver which is an rpm. I finally was able to download rpm2targz but I can't figure out how to use it. Please let me know what info you need to help and I will gladly post it. I have spent several days installing and uninstalling different things to no avail.

When I open the cups-localhost it gives me this error [There was an error during the CUPS operation: 'failed to connect to server'.]

Thanks in advance

[rj586b]

I am going to move this to the Arch forums. I will bring back the solution to this forum to help others.

Thanks

[rj586b]

That seemed to be the problem alright. I had to re-install gnutls as stated above. I kept getting an error, so I re-installed cups as well. Once I re-installed the gnutls, I installed the printer driver as you said.
This line

Tarball :: PKGBUILD

on this website AUR (en) - epson-inkjet-printer-stylus-office-tx610fw-series actually is 2 links. Click on the first half that says Tarball.

From there (as Frank and the wiki says), When you downloaded it, extract it, cd to the directory created and run

makepkg -s

This will build you an installable package in the same directory which you can install running

sudo pacman -U [packagename]

To start cups

/etc/rc.d/cups start

Then add it to your daemons like this so it restarts every time your computer boots up or you will wonder why you can't print after restart

sudo nano /etc/rc.conf

Then list cupsd in the portion of the rc.conf file. Example - DAEMONS=(pcmcia syslogd klogd !fam esd mono network autofs cupsd crond gdm)

That is it! Problem solved!

Frank,

Thank you for all your help. I learned alot and understand the wikis alot better as well.

Have an Awesome weekend!

taseis