Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:26:34 -0300 From: Sergio de Almeida Lenzi <lenzi.sergio@gmail.com> To: David DEMELIER <demelier.david@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Porting NetworkManager to FreeBSD Message-ID: <1271514394.98060.9.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <r2gb3954bba1004170113yb3d44566j3247ae64d820f349@mail.gmail.com> References: <20100416130731.58548adc@scorpio.seibercom.net> <r2gb3954bba1004170113yb3d44566j3247ae64d820f349@mail.gmail.com>
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Em Sáb, 2010-04-17 às 10:13 +0200, David DEMELIER escreveu: > 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. > > Cheers, > Laptops needs NM badly.. Linux have it, Opensolaris have it... I cannot use FreeBSD 8.0 in my laptops (8 persons in my company) because there is no NM. All the Laptops runs Arch linux... it is a good OS but does not compares to FBSD. That is a thing that is missing... I agree that wpa supplicat is great... so if one can only make a GUI for it... it would make all of us happy too.... Sergio
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