The bridge is a little connection, that transforms serial Appletalk into ethernet. Ansanté and Farallon sell these bridges. These printers were connected to old Macintosh computers to a serial port. Nowadays, these port are no longer on new Macs and these bridges can then be used to connect these printers to newer Macs. I have a Laserwriter 320 (bought it for 75 guilders, plus a newly filled toner a 100 guilders, sum = 175 guilders) connected to an iMac 400 with such a bridge, I should check at home the brand name of the bridge.
These bridges are also very cheap, I bought one for eighty guilders (around 35 euro). This could be bought by you I think as people donate to the ppc-port, don't they ? Stew Benedict wrote: > On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Jeroen Diederen wrote: > > > Hello , > > > > I wondered if it were possible to include, in the upcoming version of Mandrake, > > a tool to configure old Appletalk printers, connected via a bridge. It must be > > possible to print via these old machines, probably a lot of people are still > > using these laserprinters (including myself). For the moment I was not able to > > configure it myself in a way that Linux can print to this machine with lpd. I > > succeeded however to send some postscript data directly with the pap command. > > What do you guys think about an utiliy that would configure an Appletalk > > printer connected with a bridge ? Is it feasible ? I would love to have such > > thing ! > > > > Sounds like a great idea, but I don't own any such beasts, and don't > really have any desire to get one. (All my printers are on the network on > a print server). A contribution would certainly be welcome though, and if > someone wanted some help/direction on how to integrate this into the > installer or drak tools I could help there. What exactly is this "bridge" > device? > > Stew Benedict > > -- > MandrakeSoft > PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 > IRC: irc.openproject.net #cooker-ppc
