And you're sure that:
1) The little "Appletalk" check box is checked on the
popup window that you get when you put the card into
your Newt?
2) You have a printer on the network that can talk
Appletalk?
Ed
web/gadget guru
http://newton.tek-ed.com (download Newton packages)
http://65.84.243.167 (my NPDS server)
--- Karel Jansens <kareljansens_at_tiscalinet.be> wrote:
>
> I finally got my network cards, a 3Com 3C589C for my
> Newton and a
> generic PCI 10BASE-T for my desktop.
>
> The 3Com card installed beautifully, following the
> faq (as a 3C589
> card). I set it up with address 192.168.0.3 (netmask
> 255.255.255.0). In
> Prefs, AppleTalk was configured to use EtherTalk,
> with the correct card
> selected.
>
> The desktop card was installed under Linux (SuSE
> 7.2) with address
> 192.168.0.2, using YaST2, and it pings fine, look:
>
> PING 192.168.0.2 (192.168.0.2): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 192.168.0.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255
> time=0.111 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.0.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255
> time=0.093 ms
> --- 192.168.0.2 ping statistics ---
> 2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0%
> packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max = 0.093/0.102/0.111 ms
>
> I downloaded the netatalk rpms from the SuSE site
> and installed them.
>
> I added a line in /etc/atalk/papd.conf (SuSE puts
> some configuration
> files in different locations from RedHat):
> lplj4p::pr=/dev/lp0:op=kj:pd=/user/etc/hp4m6_v1.ppd:
>
> I made sure that the atalk daemon is running:
>
> kj_at_linux:~ > ps waux | grep atalk
> root 1188 0.0 0.1 2432 888 ? S
> 16:21 0:00
> /usr/sbin/atalkd
> kj 1299 0.0 0.1 1548 584 pts/1 S
> 16:48 0:00 grep
> atalk
>
> And then I opened Notepad, selected print and chose
> "Choose Network
> LaserWriter".
> What I _do_ get is a lot of LED-activity on both
> cards, but the slip
> says nothing but 'Looking for Printers", until I
> kill it. The connection
> is made with a RJ45 crossover cable.
>
> So what am I doing wrong? Pls bear in mind that this
> network stuff is
> rather new for me.
>
>
> --
> Karel Jansens
> kareljansens_at_tiscalinet.be
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