From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 26 19:56:16 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C63931065676 for ; Wed, 26 May 2010 19:56:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peterjeremy@acm.org) Received: from mail35.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail35.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.133.51]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54FDC8FC17 for ; Wed, 26 May 2010 19:56:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from server.vk2pj.dyndns.org (c211-30-160-13.mirnd2.nsw.optusnet.com.au [211.30.160.13] (may be forged)) by mail35.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id o4QJuDf1013850 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 27 May 2010 05:56:14 +1000 X-Bogosity: Ham, spamicity=0.000000 Received: from server.vk2pj.dyndns.org (localhost.vk2pj.dyndns.org [127.0.0.1]) by server.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o4QJuBf7083481; Thu, 27 May 2010 05:56:11 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org) Received: (from peter@localhost) by server.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id o4QJuBjN083480; Thu, 27 May 2010 05:56:11 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter) Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 05:56:11 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy To: Jesse Smith Message-ID: <20100526195611.GA83137@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <1274876344.2444.28.camel@hp-laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1274876344.2444.28.camel@hp-laptop> X-PGP-Key: http://members.optusnet.com.au/peterjeremy/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port request X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 19:56:16 -0000 --vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2010-May-26 09:19:04 -0300, Jesse Smith wrote: >I was told that requests for new ports should be submitted here. Unfortunately, you were misled. FreeBSD ports are a volunteer effort and the general approach is that if you want a port and no-one has already created it, you probably need to do it yourself. You can find information on creating a port at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/index.html > There's >one tool which I would like to see brought into the Ports system and >that's Network Manager >(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tools/NetworkManager) > >It's the only networking tool I've found so far which will properly >handle my Novatel mobile modem and I would really like to be able to >make use of the modem while running FreeBSD. That makes you the first person I've run into with anything positive to say about NetworkMangler. As an alternative to porting NotworkMangler, you might try posting a description of your modem, version of FreeBSD and problems you are having to freebsd-questions or maybe freebsd-stable. BTW, there's no benefit in reposting the same question to the same list. --=20 Peter Jeremy --vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkv9fNoACgkQ/opHv/APuIf8AQCfeA/0TzLv+NsDe9HbCF9T2ZLt up8AnAlysBC/Q1kZtIX+xLfXvZkZ5SFS =6b1E -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd--