hi guys. i've got two pc's - one new and one old - both running ubuntu 8.10 and i'm gonna install freebsd 7.0 on the new one as a second os. the problem is that the printer is mostly used by the old machine and i heavily use usb stick when working on it. it has only two usb ports - one for mouse and one for printer/usb stick and there're no slots to add another one. as a solution i can connect the printer to the new machine and print docs from the old one via lan. but this requires me to run the new machine while i'm not using it directly. is there a way to run freebsd in some energy saving mode to just passtrough data to the printer. of course i can buy a usb hub but it doesn't seem to be a challenge and i just want to test freebsd as heavily as possible as i'm absolutely new to this os. thanks in advance.
Jay.
Jay.