[rescue] Mac stuff rescue

Steve Sandau ssandau at bath.tmac.com
Mon Mar 4 11:10:39 CST 2002


> > I was wondering if NetBSD supported AppleTalk. Do I take your suggestion
> > to mean that is does?
> NetBSD has netatalk, that means it can speak the AppleTalk protocol
> on Ethernet. I use this for my printer, a Apple LaserWriter IIg. It
> is connected via Ethernet and I can use it as any regular *ix
> printer with a LPD filter that pipes the print data over the network.

Sounds like it won't talk over the AppleTalk port, which is what I'd
need. The little Mac II ci has no ethernet card, only an AppleTalk port.
So I need a physical as well as a protocol bridge... That would be a lot
to ask of NetBSD...

-- 
Steve Sandau
IS Technician, TMA Bath, Maine
ssandau at bath.tmac.com



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