Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 07:42:06 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: atar <atar.yosef@gmail.com> Cc: "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> References: <C18F5819-A884-4A86-9FBA-FF7CEFF70695@gmail.com> <CAJ-VmombJ8Ky8Lmj70YgUH7%2BfQkiwJQ9XyD7OqfkYfx7=OfdcA@mail.gmail.com> <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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