[WinMac] OS X / Old LaserJet / EtherWave

From: Ilyse Kazar (kazar[at]datatude.net)
Date: Thu Jun 05 2003 - 20:44:03 EDT

  • Next message: Donovan, Harold: "RE: [WinMac] OS X / Old LaserJet / EtherWave"

    Hi, again --

    After having gotten various suggestions on this list for being
    able to print from OS X to my old LaserJet 5MP, I followed what
    seemed like the easiest route: I bought an old Farallon
    EtherWave on eBay.

    For $25 plus $7 shipping (when the postage was actually $1.32),
    I received an Etherwave in what looks like reasonable condition,
    although it did not arrive with a power adapter. (I hate buying
    things on eBay!) Luckily I had an old adapter from a Zip drive
    that plugs into the unit. The red power light goes on.

    I hooked everything up the way it seems it ought to be done, but
    my computer cannot see the printer:

    --the serial plug on the end of the EtherWave's cable is
    plugged into the serial port of the LaserJet

    --an Ethernet cable from my network switch is plugged into one
    of the two RJ-45 ports on the EtherWave

    --the red power light and the green "link" light for that RJ-45
    port are both lit

    --I can see the yellow "transmit" light for that RJ-45 port blipping

    --AppleTalk is enabled on my computer (10.2.5)

    There is no connection to the printer in Print Center, nor in
    the HP LaserJet Utility (bless HP for making an OS X driver &
    utility for this 8-year-old printer!)

    Did I miss a step somewhere? Did I get this plugged together
    wrong? Do I have to put another ethernet cable into the other
    RJ-45 port, and then what do I plug the other end into?

    I know the ethernet cable I used is good, because I unplugged it
    from a computer that was on the network.

    Thanks,

    kazar 

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