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Date:      Sun, 31 Aug 2014 07:42:06 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        atar <atar.yosef@gmail.com>
Cc:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org" <freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: TL-WN722N support on FreeBSD.
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.11.1408310738090.29295@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <73C363A9-5608-4A2B-B9F3-D96E8BA93050@gmail.com>
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On Sun, 31 Aug 2014, atar wrote:

> Here's additional place where FreeBSD has lack of support: USB based printers.
>
> Here's a citation from the FreeBSD handbook (page no. 251):
>
>> USB interfaces, named for the Universal Serial Bus, can run at even 
>> faster speeds than parallel or RS-232 serial interfaces. Cables are 
>> simple and cheap. USB is superior to RS-232 Serial and to Parallel 
>> for printing, but it is not as well supported under UNIX systems. A 
>> way to avoid this problem is to purchase a printer that has both a 
>> USB interface and a Parallel interface, as many printers do.

That appears to be an old version of the Handbook.  The current printing 
chapter covers all four common connection types:
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/printing-connections.html



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