Epson Stylus CX6600

[Brian Hechinger]

Brian Hechinger wrote:
> Russ Fineman wrote:
> > Brian did you ever get your printer working? I'm going out this afternoon
> > and pick up a CX6600. Office Depot has them for $178. plus a $50. rebate.
> > I'll let you know how the driver I downloaded works.
>
> I've gotten as far as (sadly) removing NetBSD from the print server and installing Slackware 10 (painful, i cannot STAND linux) and i've gotten
> PIPS built and installed.  i can add a printer, choose the CX6600 model that is installed via PIPS, and i can attempt to print a test page.  it then informs me that "Media tray empty!" and aborts the jobs.  the media tray is not empty, and the control panel on the front of the printer has nothing to say about the media tray being empty.
>
> other than that, it sees to work great.   ;)

AH HA!

it was looking for /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.6 and i have 0.9.7 installed, so i just made a symlink to 0.9.6 (and also for libcrypt) and now everything works!

yay!

let me know if you run into any trouble, i can now help you.

-brian