Re: IIe workstation card

[Marsha Jackson <menacechgo@aol.com>]

**** **** wrote:

> Dennis, its a localtalk networking card... an entirely different scheme.
> You'd also have to have a localtalk card for the linux box, and there are
> very few of them around.
>
> Beware, though... some bridges seem to only be made for allowing a localtalk
> printer on an ethernet network, and may not fully implement the entire
> appletalk protocol. So if it's especially cheap...

Using some of the netatalk installations for LINUX along with a Gatorbox bridge
should allow a localtalk network to view an Appleshare(d) volume on the LINUX
box (sending AT encapsulated over ethernet cabling).
I haven't really tried it out yet as I seem to have my both my ethernet and
localtalk networks running in parallel anyway.
My GS and Mac print to my QMS-PS410 over LT
My Mac prints to my LW810 printer over LT or Ethernet
My PC prints to my LW810 over ethernet
My PC prints to my QMS-PS410 ethernet thru a Gatorbox to Localtalk network
My GS prints thru a Mac LCII print server to the LW810 (due to an Appletalk bug
in the printer)