Subject: Re: LaserWriter and lpr
To: netbsd/mac68k <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Don Doumakes <doumakes@loganet.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/20/2001 20:58:37
On 2001.03.17 01:32:25 -0600 Philip Brodd wrote:
> I have a Personal LaserWriter NTR connected to my IIcx 1.5 system via
> a
> 9-pin Mac serial cable.  I can print PostScript files using 'cat
> file.ps
> > /dev/tty01' so I've established that there is a connection and that
> the hardware is working on both ends.

I'm new to NetBSD, and I'm working now on getting the printer to work. 
I don't have it as far as getting any output to the printer yet.

The box is a Mac Quadra 650 running NetBSD 1.5 (GENERIC kernel).  My
printer is a Personal Laserwriter 300, and was working before I
installed NetBSD.  The printer is plugged into "the printer port" via a
9-pin cable.

When I cat a Postscript file to /dev/tty01, I get nothin'.  RTFM doesn't
reveal much; this first step is apparently too easy to write about in
much detail!

I'd be grateful for a clue.

-- 
Don Doumakes
doumakes@loganet.net