From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 26 21:24:23 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 3A8D51065677 for ; Wed, 26 May 2010 21:24:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jessefrgsmith@yahoo.ca) Received: from n20.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com (n20.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.206.147]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E56378FC08 for ; Wed, 26 May 2010 21:24:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [68.142.194.244] by n20.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 26 May 2010 21:24:22 -0000 Received: from [68.142.201.246] by t2.bullet.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 26 May 2010 21:24:22 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp407.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 26 May 2010 21:24:22 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 301858.9897.bm@omp407.mail.mud.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 4648 invoked from network); 26 May 2010 21:24:22 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.ca; h=Received:X-Yahoo-SMTP:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:Subject:From:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:References:Content-Type:Date:Message-ID:Mime-Version:X-Mailer:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=a33GSha+KCB0FxlIywrzAvkW/OitPZDRfEm33xhWMYyeoQAb3Qf58r6gowB1mehGLbTn04icVy7FRpqp15CHJKGM480G1qrWrjjWsKiknGGLNnX/+wRMtok3uZ3VQAppFwvM0Ro0kg04SuMKv/gEm75BXORFNXNiJrucF4g2T7k= ; Received: from (jessefrgsmith@74.198.12.5 with plain) by smtp134.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 26 May 2010 14:24:09 -0700 PDT X-Yahoo-SMTP: NPm1JouswBClX_uJxHJINmnKUpROdMKvLL0- X-YMail-OSG: cQvJKngVM1lBt0GsMQX0l86LCEDPkmGykO8LzjvXB.xfzJQClPn0f6q1NcTwJcn2KS4FFSpLVG_SZU.gZxpT.f2_3CaxDYDa1n1FLcSCe8KeyJhDoCVpjgfe6eYAaibNCNdNufT0tGR4bZN5phKtwyYQu9Ao2gBo0R8_tg89N_7ZxWPFNy85dHwOkWn866FbOWlUsbEi1MK1_fEWuOxwcn72II2MwpnJTRwlIQSNj8rf9lnTNl0731anDynDJHdX8LQCMPXXqL6lYNhDEDTwveUdevUClIY4xOGojH8V2ah6meXK_fIz3dXF17GX_vukmkf2Za_7JbXYzFzTENejZneIsOjeWdQAqA-- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 From: Jesse Smith To: Peter Jeremy In-Reply-To: <20100526195611.GA83137@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <1274876344.2444.28.camel@hp-laptop> <20100526195611.GA83137@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 18:23:29 -0300 Message-ID: <1274909009.2444.111.camel@hp-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 21:24:23 -0000 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 I realize there's generally a if you want it, do it yourself approach. And that most people here are volunteers, but I was hoping if interest was expressed, one of those volunteers might take up the task. > 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. I don't see the need to intentionally misspell names to get you point across. Come on, let's be civil here. I accept you don't like the software. As for users with something positive to say, there are currently several million people who use NetworkManager on a daily basis. Surely they're not all unhappy with it? >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. Thank you, I'll try there. I'd really like to be able to run FreeBSD on my laptop and so far have been blocked by the issue with the modem. >BTW, there's no benefit in reposting the same question to the same list. Sorry, that was my fault. I sent the first e-mail _before_ I received confirmation that I was subscribed to the mailing list. I figured the first message had been filtered out and re-sent after I received confirmation.