Harry Zink/Netatalk List wrote: > > Would love to but the two cards cost me $45 and it is a SOHO network > > where additional cash does tend to go to buying kids shoes and stuff > > like that... > > > > We will be biting the bullet and buying a printserver for the printer... > > Hold on, your squeamish about spending $45 bucks on a NIC, yet you're > willing to spend at least twice that much for the print-server? The papd server was just buying time before connecting the printer to the 10/100 baseT network. The cards were dirt cheap and they worked fine until now. > You should be able to get those kind of cards at any FRY's for $25 bucks, > (just checked), and your print problems could be taken care of. In addition, > if your printer has a parallel port, why not go direct..? Sure if I was in th US - but I am in France and a 3Com card costs $45 _EACH_!!! The printer must be connected to a network with 2 Macs and 1 Win98 PC. The main Mac is a G3 - the first thing we tried was a USB -> // cable and Powerprint, didn't work. Then I set up a papd server - worked fine until I installed Redhat 6.1. Why did I install 6.1? Because I wanted an easy to setup and use modem sharing system for the 2 Macs on the network. I was tired of mucking around hand writing ppp scripts etc. > > The thing that is puzzling me is where did it go wrong: kernel, > > netatalk, NIC driver? > > Good question. The answer is in there somewhere... Cheers Tony Grant
