How to set an IP address on my LaserWriter 12/640PS

As many others I am struggling to make my trustworthy LaserWriter 12/640PS work under MacOS 10.6 as the latter has dropped AppleTalk.
I read connection is possible via LPD but obviously an IP address must be assigned to the printer.
However, how does one get the printer's current IP address? A configuration page is not printed. I cannot connect at all to the printer via telnet since I do not have it's IP address. I cannot change it either because I don't know the original one.
Moreover, in order to print the configuration page it seems one must use the old MacOS 9 printer utility, which requires MacOS 9 but which cannot be installed on my MacBook Pro or PowerBook G4 as Classic is no longer supported. Or one could use the Unix printer utility, but to access that one and to print the configuration page, one needs ... the printer's IP address...
This sounds like a catch-22 situation, which I am unable to break. Could anyone suggest me how to proceed?
To add insult to injury, the Apple LaserWriter 12/640PS works happily with Windows...
Thanks.

Look in the printer's user manual for instructions on using TCP/IP (Ethernet.) The printer will have to connect to your network via an Ethernet port. If I remember correctly those old printers only have an AppleTalk serial port, so you will need an adaptor. They were called PhoneNet adaptors. I have no idea where you might find one today. They have a serial port connection on one end and an Ethernet connection on the other.
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