From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 27 15:19:57 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 5CC5E106566C for ; Thu, 27 May 2010 15:19:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthias.andree@gmx.de) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9F19C8FC19 for ; Thu, 27 May 2010 15:19:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 27 May 2010 15:19:54 -0000 Received: from baloo.cs.uni-paderborn.de (EHLO baloo.cs.uni-paderborn.de) [131.234.21.116] by mail.gmx.net (mp037) with SMTP; 27 May 2010 17:19:54 +0200 X-Authenticated: #428038 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18tmj8awV0tdjMjhdPL/g7rkeCwma4A65l7dQ/b8i bNjV35ZiGCCyr7 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by baloo.cs.uni-paderborn.de with esmtp (Exim 4.70) (envelope-from ) id L333X3-0000I8-F6 for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Thu, 27 May 2010 17:19:51 +0200 Message-ID: <4BFE8D96.4000605@gmx.de> Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 17:19:50 +0200 From: Matthias Andree User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; de; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <1274876344.2444.28.camel@hp-laptop> <20100526195611.GA83137@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20100526162401.0da6e413@scorpio> In-Reply-To: <20100526162401.0da6e413@scorpio> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 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: Thu, 27 May 2010 15:19:57 -0000 Am 26.05.2010 22:24, schrieb Jerry: > I inquired about it a month or so ago. Other posters replied favorable > regarding it. However, since there is a dearth of drivers for any of the > newer chip sets that support the 'N' wireless protocol, it might well > be of limited usefulness. Porting NetworkManager is *not* going to repair the absense of a driver. -- Matthias Andree