Subject: Re: LaserWriter setup
To: Don Doumakes <doumakes@loganet.net>
From: John Klos <john@sixgirls.org>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/03/2001 01:19:09
Hello,
> The box is a Mac Quadra 650 running NetBSD 1.5 (GENERIC kernel). My
> printer is a Personal Laserwriter 300 (not the Laserwriter NTR with the
> switches on the back), and was working before I installed NetBSD. The
> printer is plugged into "the printer port" via a 9-pin cable.
The Personal LaserWriter 300 is a QuickDraw printer, not a PostScript
printer. Unless you can figure out how to produce QuickDraw, you probably
won't be able to use this printer with NetBSD.
John Klos