Ask HN: How do I write a Linux driver for my 15 year old photo printer?
This is an extremely poor venue for this type of question - the answers are all over the place and mostly unhelpful (printer drivers in Linux almost never involve a custom kernel driver). You might have better luck on Arch Linux forums of all places.<p>What you’re asking for probably won’t be low hassle compared to just running the 32 bit usermode “driver” - which should run fine on a 64 bit system with some packaging help.<p>Ask yourself, are you trying to use the damn printer or you want a possibly educational rabbit hole to go down. Even if you sniff the USB (you can simply use pcap/wireshark) what are you expecting to see? It will likely be Canons proprietary raster and control format. Reversing that from the bus alone will be an enormous amount of work. I’ve written proprietary “WinPrinter” printer drivers with the spec in hand and it’s still not trivial.