Solved!!!! My mouse pointer was poised over the 'format disk' button, but I
thought 'one last-ditch attempt...'

The settings to get the Epson Stylus 740 to work with an LC475 and NetBSD 1.5
are:

stty 230400 raw -echo cstopb < /dev/tty01
stty ixon ixoff < /dev/tty01
/bin/echo -n "\r\r" > /dev/tty01

The last line is necessary to persuade the printer to enter xon/xoff hand-shaking
mode. This apparently won't happen if you immediately go into graphics mode
without first printing some plain ASCII text (and a carriage-return will do).

Anyway, I now have a rather smart tiger printed out, courtesy of GhostScript. I
used:

gs @stc500.upp -sOutputFile-tiger.stc tiger.ps -c quit
and then as root (I haven't set up any special permissions on /dev/tty01)

cp tiger.stc /dev/tty01

Came out quickly, no problems. So my NetBSD installation lives to fight another
day. Perhaps I'll even try tackling printcap and lpr soon. Now all I need to do
is get that scanner working and I'll have 75% of what I installed NetBSD for.

Ian

On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 02:52:30PM -0700, Martin Joseph wrote:
> 
> PS Thanks Ian for sharing your story...  Misery really does love company.

and on Mon, May 07, 2001, I wrote:
>I asked this question a couple of times over the last
>couple of months on this mailing list, and haven't been able to get a reply.
>I assume this is because on one else has managed to get these printers working
>either.  
> 
>I think that the conclusion has to be that you can't print to the newer
>Epson printers with NetBSD on an old Mac. (Apparently you can use a Stylus  
>Pro, because it autobauds and will work at slower rates.) For me though, I  
>might as well wipe my NetBSD partition, since I can't really do anything
>useful without a printer.