From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jan 17 11:47:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA01636 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 11:47:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA01623 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 11:47:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA09016; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 12:50:19 -0700 Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 12:50:19 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199601171950.MAA09016@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: rdmurphy@acs.bu.edu Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Printer and modem recommendations? In-Reply-To: <199601171921.OAA95988@acs3.bu.edu> References: <199601171921.OAA95988@acs3.bu.edu> Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 1) low end (less than $500.) laser printers > > 2) cheap 28.8k modems Whle folks may disagree with me, I've had *really* good luck with the USR Sportsters, and they are pretty cheap. You can get the white ones (w/out voice mail) for $210 from MicroSystemsWarehouse, which is a good deal. > My sense from looking at the mail archive is that GDI (I think) > printers such as the HP 5L are not compatible with FreeBSD. Is > this true? Are there any reasonable alternatives? What gives you the idea that this printer wouldn't work? Does it use a Parallel port and/or a serial port, which are both supported under FreeBSD? Nate