From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 17 13:20:03 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B43E106564A for ; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:20:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aimass@yabarana.com) Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com (qw-out-2122.google.com [74.125.92.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E44178FC17 for ; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:20:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qw-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 5so1111250qwi.7 for ; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 06:20:02 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: aimass@yabarana.com Received: by 10.229.88.12 with HTTP; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 06:20:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20100416130731.58548adc@scorpio.seibercom.net> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 09:20:01 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: b3d70e76d88f4484 Received: by 10.229.191.1 with SMTP id dk1mr1297980qcb.18.1271510401686; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 06:20:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: From: Alejandro Imass To: David DEMELIER Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Porting NetworkManager to FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:20:03 -0000 On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 4:13 AM, David DEMELIER wrote: > 2010/4/16 Jerry : >> Has there been any movement on porting 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" >