Building deb package for the Raspberry Pi

Hi,

so I have received a Raspberry Pi this week and I want to use it as home server. Since I am using a Canon Printer (LBP3010) I have to install additional drivers. The driver is open source but I have difficulties building a deb package. After compiling the source code with

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sudo dpkg-buildpackage

and installing it with

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sudo dpkg -i cndrvcups-capt-2.40_armel.deb

I always get an error when executing ccpd (executable file from that package)

The output of file shows, that the package is not built for the ARM architecture (at least I think so).

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file /usr/sbin/ccpd
/usr/sbin/ccpd: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, stripped

What am I doing wrong? Any help?

I think I have found the problem. Some parts of the driver are compiled and therefore not open source. So I think there is no change of getting them to work for ARM architecture. What a pitty!

Hi

Sorry for my english is not very good;)

How could you compile the driver? I get error messages. What you install packages must be tested.

Did you solve the problem?

Mfg.
Jens

Apparently this guy has managed to compile version 1.6 on an ARM architecture. (in 2008.....)
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=139584

I'm trying to build the 220 version now.
This is as far as I've come:

1. setup cups
http://www.penguintutor.com/linux/printing-cups

2. download the drivers from
http://software.canon-europe.com/products/0000524.asp

3. Extract the source for cndrvcups-common-2.20 and cndrvcups-capt-2.20 found in Src folder

4. install dependencies

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sudo apt-get install autoconf libtool automake gtk+-2.0 ibgtk2.0-dev libglade2-dev cups libcups2-dev

5. compiled and installed cndrvcups-common-2.20