On Tuesday, May 21, 2002, at 10:46 AM, Douglas Hawkins wrote: > BEING new to the MAC line, does anyone have a link or > something where I can read about PRAM and all. I am > out of my league in trying to troubleshoot a G3 with > two printers hooked up to it and one through the Modem > port. One printer worked,( the one that went through > the Modem Port) I Disabled appletalk and got one to > work,( through the Printer Port) but the other wont. > THEN When I renabled apple talk, NEITHER printer would > work!!!!!! ARGH! .......
I'm not a techie, but I went through serial port heck when I hooked up my first large Wacom (A serial port device) tablet and found something out which may help you, or others. I found that my US Robotics modem 3COM fax software installed a little serial port monitor in the Apple Menu Folder which grabbed control of the serial ports and locked the Wacom out. When I removed it, the problems went away. I got a McNally serial port expander, that was problematic. Ultimately I installed a PCI serial port expansion card. Things like FAX apps and Palm Desktop can still cause me problems but I go right to their serial port arbitrators, turn 'em off, and my printing or drawing snafus go away. Steven Lee Stinnett Mythic Wave Productions mythicwave.com 818 -700 -1998 -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
