Need help with an old networked printer

[bogstad at pobox.com (Bill Bogstad)]

>BTW, I tried running tcpdump on my server's intranet card then turning the 
>printer on, and saw activity that I simply cannot interpret.  For a sample 
>see http://thekramers.net/tmp/decoutput.txt

Just from the text in that file, it looks to me like it's trying to do
Novell IPX, Appletalk, possible DECNet LAT, and NetBEUI (preIP Ethernet
based NetBIOS M$ networking).  (i.e. everything but IP).  You might try
using ethereal instead of tcpdump.  In my experience, it's much easier
to use to figure out what's going on with ethereal then with tcpdump.

BTW, it might be possible that the printer doesn't even do TCP/IP.
Or that TCP/IP has been disabled.  Unfortunately, I don't know
anything about that printer.  You could try using AppleTalk to print
to it instead. :-)

Good Luck,
Bill Bogstad