Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] LaserWriter and Linux
From: Gregor Retti (c60831@germ2.uibk.ac.at)
Date: Thu Dec 04 1997 - 11:55:25 EST
At 7:45 Uhr +0100 04.12.1997, George Geller wrote:
>I know we went over this recently on this mailing list, but it didn't reach
>a satisfactory conclusion.
>
>I'm trying to get my Apple Personal LaserWriter II NT working with my Linux
>box. I connected the hardware according to the instructions in the
>printer's manual. When I tried to access it from the Linux box, nothing
>happens at all.
>
some suggestions:
- if I do recall this correctly the old laserwriter II NT has some
switch to activate either the appletalk or the serial port
- did you check out the Printing-Howto and the Serial-Howto. there
are some notes there about serial printers. I think it might be important
to set the correct baud rate (9600 ?). setserial will do this.
- for testing just make yourself a simple postscript-file and cat it
to the serial port where the laserwriter is connected.
- finally check the rights of the device-file, to make sure lp can
write to it
hope this helps
gregor
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