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> > Then I have to portupgrade hplip and dependencies (portupgrade
> > -r ...) or the portmaster equivalent.
 
> Welcome to the wonderful world of printing on FreeBSD. By the way, is
> the time you are investing in this venture considered billable hours or
> just self-flagellation?
 
> --
> Jerry ???
> jerry+fbsd@seibercom.net

This is not for any current employment (future?), so I guess it would be self-flagellation.

But I do want to try the Ethernet way, may need to buy an Ethernet switch or router.

I also intend to build a Linux installation, don't really want to be without that.

Linux has the best hardware and software support of any open-source OS; I don't think there is any argument about that: not to downgrade FreeBSD.

Tom