>Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 18:39:59 +0200
>From: Klaus Bjerre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[schnipp]
>The AppleTalk control panel set to Printer Port.
>
>AppleTalk activated in the Chooser.
>
>A problem is, that you can not have AppleTalk working on a serial port and
>Ethernet simultaneously.

The best solution I've found for running LocalTalk (AppleTalk on RS-422 
wiring) and EtherTalk (AppleTalk on Ethernet) in the same house is to 
pick up a bridge. Asante makes a little item called "AsanteTalk", about 
the size of a cigarette pack, that hooks into your Ethernet and lets you 
daisy chain your old LocalTalk-only items onto it. I don't remember what 
the max. number of LocalTalk devices that the firmware supported, 
possibly eight.

One other thought: there was an old trick when setting up a LocalTalk 
"network" that consisted of only two nodes. You can get away with a 
plain-vanilla RS-422 "printer cable", skipping the two LocalTalk 
Connector Kits. Sometimes. Some printers were too clever by half and 
detected a non-kosher connection of this sort, and wouldn't grok 
AppleTalk unless they had a genu-wine LT Connector Kit attached. The 
original HP DeskWriter was like that; the Select 360 might be the same. 
Just in case you were trying to go the poor-man's LocalTalk route.

HtH -- Peter

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