From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 21 11:55:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from boris.netgate.net (boris.netgate.net [204.145.147.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4970D37BFC3 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 11:55:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wellsian@caffeine.com) Received: from localhost (wellsian@localhost) by boris.netgate.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA41661; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 11:54:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wellsian@caffeine.com) Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 11:54:13 -0800 (PST) From: wellsian X-Sender: wellsian@boris.netgate.net To: ccba Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LAN Postscript Printers In-Reply-To: <38B18CD3.DDA30C68@mindspring.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes, most of those bridges were designed to provide Ethernet connections for older LocalTalk Macs & printers as people upgraded to Ethernet. This means they usually supported EtherTalk, not TCP/IP, and you need AppleTalk support in your kernel (NETATALK). The IIf and only supported RS232 and LocalTalk. No Ethernet. The IIg did support Ethernet, as EtherTalk, but both printers had nasty language and port sensing problems. If you get one of these be sure to lock it to one setting for each of page description and I/O, say, PostScript over Ethernet, and you should be okay. Haven't tried one in years. Oh, and be sure to get at least 4MB in a IIf and 8 in a IIg. RAM prices were high back then and they were sold with 2 & 5MB, respectively. This handicapped their maximum page sizes, especially with PhotoGrade (grayscale). Everyone complained about "cropped" pages. Both worked best with 8MB. Now to clean off the spiderwebs, Dave On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, ccba wrote: > Hello: > > I am giving up on my endeaver to get my localtalk printer to be > recognized by the FreeBSD machine, both connected via a hub. > > I am thinkg about getting one of Apple's printers (LaserWriter IIf > or IIg), > or any Apple printer with both an Ethernet interface (AAUI) and > localtalk ports. > > Does anyone have one of these printer working with FreeBSD ?? > Any recommendations ?????? > > I learned the hard way that Localtalk to Ethernet bridges don't work > because they don't > do TCP/IP. > > Any suggestions is appreciated. > > phil wong > FreeBSD newborn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message