Subject: [netatalk-admins] Personal LaserWriter II at Linux Box
From: Matthias Koerner (matthias.koerner@giessen.netsurf.de)
Date: Thu Jul 31 1997 - 04:44:30 EDT
I have got an Linux Box running netatalk 1.3. The box is connected to an NecP7 24 needle printer, the printer is served to all connected Macs with netatlk and to the windows machines with samba, this works fine.
But I have got an old Personal LaserWriter II, and I want to serve this printer also to the Macs and to the Win Machines.
Actually the LaserWriter is connected via LocalTalk to the Macs, so the Mac Users have to switch in the ControlField "Network" from EtherTalk to LocalTalk. Second the Windows Users can't use the LasewrWriter.
Unfortunally the documentation for the LaserWriter is lost. I only see a MiniDB 8 (like the serial ports at the mac) and an SubD 25 (like the scsi interface at the macs) at the back of the LaserWriter.
Questions:
Is it possible to make the LaserWriter talking with the Linux Box via serial interface? What have I to do therefor?
Matthias Koerner
DGB Jugendbuero Mitte
Walltorstraße 17
35390 Giessen
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