Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bu.edu!Shiva.COM!phil
From: phil@Shiva.COM (Phil Budne)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: A LaserWriter LocalTalk Zone
Message-ID: <1990Oct4.213900.25338@Shiva.COM>
Date: 4 Oct 90 21:39:00 GMT
References: <5868559@AppleLink.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: phil@Shiva.COM (Phil Budne)
Followup-To: comp.protocols.appletalk
Organization: Shiva Corporation, Cambridge Ma, USA
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In article <5868559@AppleLink.Apple.COM> CLAUSS1@applelink.apple.com (Clauss, Chris) writes:
>    If I put all my Macintoshes directly onto Ethernet (EtherTalk NB Cards) and
>put ONLY LaserWriters onto LocalTalk (or PhoneNet) and then I tie the EtherTalk
>and LocalTalk networks together with a Shiva FastPath, will my Macs be able to
>print to the LaserWriters?


>    Sure you say!  Of course it will work!  Well I have a customer who tried
>this and it did not work!  When he phoned Shiva tech support they said that
>this is a "known problem".

This is indeed a "known problem" with LaserWriter II NT's.  The bug is
in the LAP driver, located in the PROM and therefore difficult to rev.

This problem is my top priority.

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