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DSL is only slightly diff than Cable. You have a static IP, but if your access is through a NIC, then it's all the same. You MAY have to specify the IP, DNS, and such in the networking setup, check with the way Windows does it first. If you open Networking Properties, TCP/IP properties, does it use DHCP? Is your computer assigned an IP manually? Just copy down ALL the info you can find there (on all 6 tabs), and transfer it to the networking setup in Linux.
If your printer switch is accessed via IP, that will be easy to set up. You just have to specify the port type (serial, parallel, USB) and assign the IP to the port. MDK should find the hardware, just not sure if it will set it all up correctly. You might have to do a bit of console work for that.