Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:54:45 +0000 From: Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com> To: Sergio de Almeida Lenzi <lenzi.sergio@gmail.com> Cc: David DEMELIER <demelier.david@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Porting NetworkManager to FreeBSD Message-ID: <x2k179b97fb1004170754m12e025d5x4b783902252cf49d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1271514394.98060.9.camel@localhost> References: <20100416130731.58548adc@scorpio.seibercom.net> <r2gb3954bba1004170113yb3d44566j3247ae64d820f349@mail.gmail.com> <1271514394.98060.9.camel@localhost>
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On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi <lenzi.sergio@gmail.com> wrote: > Em S=E1b, 2010-04-17 =E0s 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.. =A0Linux have it, Opensolaris have it... I canno= t > use > FreeBSD 8.0 in my laptops (8 persons in my company) because there is no > NM. > > All the Laptops runs Arch linux... =A0it 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 Check out net-mgmt/wifimgr, available in ports. It's a graphical front-end for wpa_supplicant. -Brandon
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