Exactly, I am working on that....If anybody has experience with this, again, help is appreciated !
Jeroen cjw wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, cjw wrote: > > > On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Jeroen Diederen wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > > Looks like you have a regular localtalk LaserWriter. Since you have a nice > > localtalk <=> ethertalk bridge it should apear on your iMac's ethernet as > > an appletalk printer. You can use it with pap in the netatalk package. > > With nbplkup in the same package you can check if it indeed shows up as an > > appletalk node. > > Well, you already knew that, I'm not very helpful :(. Looks like you only > need to find a way to call pap from CUPS. > > Christiaan
