Thank you, Howard! The printer I'm trying to connect at the upstairs location is an Apple LaserWriter Select 360, which I've been using successfully for years, until now, with this same PowerBook at another location. As I have been doing previously (and have tried to now) I tried to connect the PB G4 through an ethernet cable, into a Farallon EtherMac iPrint Adapter, which then goes to the printer through PhoneNet (4-conductor telephone cord). I've also tried using an Asante Micro AsantePrint adapter, without success.
In each case, the computer asks me to change my AppleTalk (inside the PowerBook) connection from the computer's Airport wireless connection to the Ethernet port. It doesn't let me have both avenues open simultaneously. Having to be constantly opening Control Panels to be flipping between having the PB paying attention to the upstairs printer and/or scanner OR to the wireless connection with the downstairs wireless router, and thereon, via ethernet to the other PowerBook, other printer and internet connection with the outside world, downstairs, would drive me (and probably most other fairly sane people) crazy. I had imagined it was possible to be using all the PowerBook's ports simultaneously. I hope that's true, (or at least some of them simultaneously - including wireless.) I'm looking forward to this list's readership to leading me to understand how to make this system work. Thanks again, for taking on this seemingly knotty problem, Howard! You're the first respondent, so I assume that the issue I'm presenting is not one with an easy solution. I hope that assessment proves incorrect. stanton ************ On Dec 19, 2008, at 9:45 AM, Howard Katz wrote: On 12/18/08, Stanton Mitrany <[email protected]> wrote: In trying to get the upstairs printer connected to the upstairs PB, it seems that I can only accomplish this by disconnecting from the upstairs PB's internal Airport card wireless connection with the wireless network, and reconnecting the AppleTalk of the PB to any of the following: Ethernet, internal modem, USB, or Firewire. Actually, I don't remember whether all these options are available, but the main point is, that I don't seem to be able to be simultaneously connected to both the wireless network and to the upstairs printer on a hard- wired (ethernet) basis. Sounds like something's not set right--I've had printers connected directly to my PB using USB and still printed to another printer thru a wifi setup, simply by choosing the different printer description. The 'book knew which connection to use based on that. (I'm not on my 'book at the moment--clunky Windoz 98 machine!) Is there a way of specifying that in the printer description? Howard --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's G-Books list, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
