On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 06:58:51PM +0200, Matteo Bertolini wrote: > Mmaybe it is a FAQ. Is there anybody using this laser printer with > Woody? Any url or link to docs? > > Thanks, > Matteo
See Apple's "Developer Note" for your printer, available as a PDF file at http://developer.apple.com in the directory /techpubs/hardware/Developer_Notes/Printers. I just took a quick look at that file. My impression is that your printer has only a LocalTalk port (no serial, no parallel, no ethernet), and that the printer only understands AppleTalk. (Some earlier LaserWriters had LocalTalk ports that could be used as serial ports. Then Apple stopped doing this, probably because mixed-up attempts to use serial protocols on AppleTalk networks would bring down the networks!) If this is true, then you are in trouble, because there is no current support for AppleTalk over LocalTalk -- the netatalk suite only works over ethernet. You should closely examine the Developer Note and your printer to see whether I've got it wrong. My impression is that getting netatalk to work over a serial/LocalTalk cable would not be gruesomely hard, but is it worth it? So far no one has thought so, but you might. A natural approach would be imitating the way slattach sets up SLIP over a serial line. Also see the second edition of "Linux Device Drivers", available online at O'Reilly. If you would rather spend some money than get your hands dirty with AppleTalk, look for reports of people adding ethernet to LaserWriters using some kind of "bridge" from Asante. I seem to remember that some people added ethernet to the model I have (LaserWriter Select 360), but I've got it working nicely with serial at 57600 baud. This is a lot slower than ethernet, but does not seem like a severe bottleneck because the printer itself only runs at 15 MHz. -- John (MacPhail)