Well, that gimp-print thing didn’t work. I couldn’t find a new printer in the admin tool. Oh well. maybe a reboot will fix it…
What’s that? one of the newtwork cards stopped working? Grr… the only thing worse than defective hardware is hardware that works intermittently. Sometimes I really miss my Apple hardware.
Fortunatly the box that has two 10/100 connections hasn’t been torn down… I take that, then set it up and re-copy my music to it, and my world of warcraft isntallation. I notice increased transfer speed. This box has a 2.8 GHz P4 a gig of DDR2 ram, and a 160 GB SATA hard drive. 10 MB/sec… Sigh, I’ll take it.
Then I move on to trying the same failure of gimp-print, and an internet search leads me to try gimp-print-cups.
[root@gateway ~]# apt-get install gimp-print-cups
Reading Package Lists…
Building Dependency Tree…
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gimp-print-cups
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 removed and 53 not upgraded.
Need to get 24.5MB of archives.
After unpacking 30.8MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 ftp://rh.apt.clarkconnect.com System/os gimp-print-cups 4.2.7-2 [24.5MB]
Fetched 24.5MB in 45s (543kB/s)
Committing changes…
Preparing… ##################################################
gimp-print-cups ##################################################
Done.
Holy Cow! That works, but there’s a bunch of printers, none of which have any differentiation. They’re all Epson R300 something-or-other-gimp-print. But, I picked the first one, and the test page printed… but the sheet of paper fed through crooked 
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Anyway. Looks like I’m good to go, other than needing for ClarkConnect to be based on a newer release of RHEL.
