Installing Samsung ML-1865w printer

**Kyo555** · October 14th, 2011

as for the WiFi, you just have to find out your printers IP, I did this using the router-menu looking for the last device that connected.

then you go to the "unified driver configurator", add a new printer, go to manual select, then enter the printer's IP in ipp://, next select ML1865W and you're done.

**Happibun** · November 7th, 2011

Hi guys,

I'm having an 'interesting' and frustrating afternoon trying to get my Samsung ML-1865w to play nice.

I've tried sudo '/home/YOURUSERNAME/Desktop/cdroot/autorun', and sudo sh '/home/YOURUSERNAME/Desktop/cdroot/autorun'. The QT installer ran fine for me and I was able to enter what I thought was the right info, but with the USB plugged in to my lappy running 10.04 LTS, printing a test page brings

Internal Error - please use the proper driver.

Position : 0x0 (0)
system : h6fw_5.49/xl_op
Line: 180
Version : SPL 5.49 10-20-2010

The lappy tells me everything is fine and the drivers are installed and the printer is ready.

I've not even tried to network it through the WiFi yet, my router isn't seeing it, even when I switch off the WPA.

So....... What am I doing wrong?

Thanks, Jo

**Happibun** · November 7th, 2011

OK, Scratch the above post.

I think I've worked out the problem.

It seems that Tesco put the wrong laser in to the wrong box when selling off it's shop soiled remnants...

Of course I was trying to install the wrong driver.

No wonder I couldn't get the WiFi to see it either.

I'll sidle off now, nothing to see here... ahem..

**shortmort37** · December 22nd, 2011

Originally Posted by Kyo555

as for the WiFi, you just have to find out your printers IP, I did this using the router-menu looking for the last device that connected.

then you go to the "unified driver configurator", add a new printer, go to manual select, then enter the printer's IP in ipp://, next select ML1865W and you're done.

I've got WEP encryption enabled on my wireless network. Isn't it the case that the printer won't acquire an IP, until the key is defined in the printer? How do I do that, without disabling encryption?

Dan

**DimaKirk** · January 10th, 2012

Originally Posted by shortmort37

I've got WEP encryption enabled on my wireless network. Isn't it the case that the printer won't acquire an IP, until the key is defined in the printer? How do I do that, without disabling encryption?

Dan

Try restart printer.

**nigeldodd** · April 11th, 2012

Mine says just ML-1865 on the top of its case so perhaps it lacks the wifi.

When I plugged the printer in using usb to the 11.10 64 bit computer it was identified and the ML-1860-Series driver loaded. However when I printed using this I got the "Internal Error - please use the proper driver system: h6f2_5.49/xl_op version spl 5.49 10-20-2010" error printed out on paper.

So I downloaded UnifiedLinuxDriver_0.98.tar.gz and uncompressed it. Then run
sudo sh autorun

**** It seems Qt library is not installed, or X display is not accessible.
**** Custom Qt library will be configured for use with this package.
GUI mode installer execution failed, proceeding in text mode
**** Running text mode install
**** Press Enter to continue or q and then Enter to quit:

**** Non-priviliged users found:
nobody kate liz geoff ed
**** Are you going to use USB-connected devices ?
**** If yes, users allowed to scan or manage printers should be added to lp
**** group. The list of non-privileged users proposed for addition is shown above.
**** Press y and then Enter to add users or Enter to leave lp group intact:

**** Print drivers for the following device models available:
CLP-300splc CLP-310splc CLP-320splc CLP-340splc CLP-350ps CLP-500splc CLP-510splc CLP-550ps CLP-600splc CLP-610splc CLP-620splc CLP-650ps CLP-660ps CLP-670ps CLP-770ps CLX-216xsplc CLX-3160splc CLX-3170splc CLX-3180splc CLX-3240splc CLX-6200ps CLX-6220ps CLX-6240ps CLX-6250ps CLX-8380ps CLX-8385ps CLX-8385Xps CLX-8540ps CLX-9250ps mfp560 mfp65x mfp750 ML-1450ps ML-1510spl2 ML-1520spl2 ML-1610spl2 ML-1630spl2 ML-1630wspl2 ML-1640spl2 ML-1660spl ML-1710spl2 ML-1740spl2 ML-1750spl2 ML-1860spl ML-1865wspl ML-191xspl2 ML-2010spl2 ML-2150ps ML-2150spl2 ML-2240spl2 ML-2245spl2 ML-2250spl2 ML-2510spl2 ML-2525w ML-2550ps ML-2550Sps ML-2550Sspl2 ML-2560ps ML-2570ps ML-2580spl2 ML-2850ps ML-2853ps ML-2855ps ML-3050spl2 ML-3310spl2 ML-3470ps ML-3475ps ML-3560spl2 ML-3710ps ML-4050DMVps ML-4050ps ML-4055ps ML-451xps ML-4550ps ML-4555ps ML-5510ps ML-6060ps ML-7300ps ML-8850ps ML-8x00ps scx3200 scx4100 scx4200 scx4300 scx4500 scx4500w scx4600 scx4623fw scx4623 scx4725 scx4x16 scx4x20 scx4x21 scx4x24 scx4x25 scx4x26 scx4x28ps scx4x33ps scx5312f scx5635ps scx5835ps scx5835Xps scx5x30 scx6545ps scx6545Xps scx6x20PCL scx6x20 scx6x20PS scx6x22ps scx6x45ps scx6x55ps scx6x55Xps scx8030ps sf531p
**** Please enter model to install and press Enter:

I tried first ML-1865wspl. The computer did some flashing and logged me out!

Reading the above messages I then tried ML-1860spl

**** Please enter model to install and press Enter: ML-1860spl
INFO: Restarting udev ...
control: unrecognized option '--reload_rules'
INFO: Installing MFP port and SANE backend libraries ...
cd: 1877: can't cd to /usr/lib64/sane
ln: creating symbolic link `./K07smfpd': File exists
ln: creating symbolic link `./K07smfpd': File exists
ln: creating symbolic link `./K07smfpd': File exists
ln: creating symbolic link `./S93smfpd': File exists
ln: creating symbolic link `./S93smfpd': File exists
ln: creating symbolic link `./S93smfpd': File exists
ln: creating symbolic link `./S93smfpd': File exists
INFO: Installing GUI lpr ...
INFO: Fixing file ownership and permissions ...
INFO: Registering SANE backend ...
INFO: Registering CUPS printer ...
Rather than invoking init scripts through /etc/init.d, use the service(8)
utility, e.g. service cups restart

Since the script you are attempting to invoke has been converted to an
Upstart job, you may also use the stop(8) and then start(8) utilities,
e.g. stop cups ; start cups. The restart(8) utility is also available.
cups stop/waiting
cups start/running, process 10409
INFO: CUPS restart OK
INFO: Creating menu entries ...
mkdir: cannot create directory `/proc/Desktop': No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access `/proc/Desktop': No such file or directory
chown: cannot access `/proc/Desktop': No such file or directory
mkdir: cannot create directory `/proc/.gnome-desktop': No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access `/proc/.gnome-desktop': No such file or directory
chown: cannot access `/proc/.gnome-desktop': No such file or directory
INFO: Finishing installation ...
**** Text mode install finished

Now I have three drivers: ML-1860-Series (installed automatically on connecting printer but generating output printed error message) ML-1865wspl and ML-1860spl. None of them work.

Something has appeared on the desktop called Samsung Unified Driver Configuation. It's not a shell script. When I cat it I get:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Samsung Unified Driver Configurator
Name[C]=Samsung Unified Driver Configurator
Comment=Manage your printers and scanners here
Comment[C]=Manage your printers and scanners here
Type=Application
Exec=/opt/Samsung/mfp/bin/Configurator
Path=/opt/Samsung/mfp/bin
Icon=/opt/Samsung/mfp/share/images/Configurator.png
Terminal=0
TerminalOptions=
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=

So what is this supposed to be?

if I go to /opt/Samsung/mfp/bin and execute Configurator I get

./Configurator
./Configurator: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I presume the .so is an old shared library no longer present on 11.10.

So, no resolution so far and a definite bad mark for Ubuntu and its general usefulness to ordinary people!

**nigeldodd** · April 11th, 2012

Problem solved ML-1865 on 11.10. Remove all Samsung. Even the one that 11.10 offers without loading the Samsung universal driver must be removed. Then follow
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=341621

thanks to tweeedledee.

**stijnblommerde** · May 3rd, 2012

printer ML-1865W
OS 12.04

1. follow tweedledee: step 1,2,3
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=341621

2. unlock and disable firewall (if enabled)

3. Link printer to modem via WPS (press and hold WPS button on both modem and printer)

4. download driver from Samsung Website. choose unified linux driver.
http://www.samsung.com/us/support/ow...t/ML-1865W/XAA

5. extract package to desktop (or any other location)

6. from terminal window:
sudo sh /home/[username]/Desktop/cdroot/autorun
(Desktop with capital D!)

7. follow on screen instructions:
- environment components: install anyway (in my case SANE was missing)
- users in group: no
- disable lpt: yes
- network printer: search

8. log out and log in (to refresh printers listed in programs like libreoffice)

wireless printing works!