Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 09:20:01 -0400 From: Alejandro Imass <ait@p2ee.org> To: David DEMELIER <demelier.david@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Porting NetworkManager to FreeBSD Message-ID: <x2la14066a01004170620g2ca2eb5ie01f80f078e88bb9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <r2gb3954bba1004170113yb3d44566j3247ae64d820f349@mail.gmail.com> References: <20100416130731.58548adc@scorpio.seibercom.net> <r2gb3954bba1004170113yb3d44566j3247ae64d820f349@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 4:13 AM, David DEMELIER <demelier.david@gmail.com> wrote: > 2010/4/16 Jerry <freebsd.user@seibercom.net>: >> Has there been any movement on porting NetworkManager >> <http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/>; to FreeBSD? I read >> something awhile ago, I don't remember where, that it was planned for >> the 8.0 release (I think). I have seen it in use on a friends PC, and >> it is really awesome. >> > > Do you really like NM ? Each time I use it it bugs, sometimes it > connects and sometime not. Of course it's great for people who wants > something easy to manage but NM needs the users to connect the X > session. > > wpa_supplicant is really great, it scans access points available and > try to connect them (you can add many networks in your > wpa_supplicant.conf) and then it starts connecting even if you're not > in your X session. > > About the NM port in freebsd I guess we can wait a long time. > Hmm, I can dissagree here. I second the motion for nm support in FBSD, you won't find it very useful on your server, but laptop users surely love it in Linux. +1 to the OP Best, Alejandro Imass > Cheers, > > -- > Demelier David > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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