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Ali Janah wrote:

> Hi !
>
> I've got a friend who has an old PowerBook 520 with a StyleWriter II. He
> has a built-in modem (PowerPort 500) in it as well.This thing is running
> PPP on System 7.1.1. But now he is connected to the ethernet and wants to
> connect his printer to the powerbook. But whenever, I tried to configure
> his printer to the printer port, I can get the printer to work. The
> displayed messages indicated that "the modem port is being used by another
> application". Now noticing that there's only one port serving as both
> printer/modem port, I figured that it must be the modem which must be
> conflicting with the printer port. So, i disable PPP and the PowerPort 500
> control panel and extenstion and restarted the machine.
>
> The problem still persists indicating that the port is being used by an
> application. I couldn't figure out what other apps is using his modem
> port. Could anybody help me out with this problem. Thank you in advance.
>
> --
> Ali Janah Abdullah
> Software Engineering
> Edith Cowan University
>
> E-Mail = aabdulla@student.ecu.edu.au

You might want to turn off appletalk in the chooser. This is the reason that
the printer is defaulting to the modem port.


Hope it helps



Peter