RE: [WinMac] OS X / Old LaserJet / EtherWave

From: Donovan, Harold (donovan.harold[at]nbpub.com)
Date: Fri Jun 06 2003 - 08:20:47 EDT

  • Next message: Tom Roth: "RE: [WinMac] OS X / Old LaserJet / EtherWave"

    I never had an etherwave, but it sounds like it is the same kind of unit as
    the Dayna Etherprint adapter that we have used for years. These adapters
    would not show up on the network (using any version of the OS from 6.0.7 to
    10.?) unless they were named. There is a utility called The Namer that I
    got from HP? that works really well. If you would like, I can send it to
    you.

    HTH

    Harold Donovan
    IS Analyst
    New Brunswick Publishing

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Ilyse Kazar [mailto:kazar[at]datatude.net]
    Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 9:44 PM
    To: winmac@iffy.com
    Subject: [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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Datatude(R) consulting services
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