From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 17 15:18:03 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4739106566C for ; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:18:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iw0-f171.google.com (mail-iw0-f171.google.com [209.85.223.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9538E8FC0C for ; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:18:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn1 with SMTP id 1so2103512iwn.27 for ; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 08:18:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:received:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Yu4LYhI4NgCmOw9EkZvkbfMfaa9gxiRIw++UMQd0kZ0=; b=F/bUKfpETKuvINhp7Hzo+KAjfKIczNW7QiTggP0jftvt9xcWCibxhUctIEROTDHSca C+Q5yr7r61vDuG/WzOdjKwJ3Xky6/nlViHXBndJVwZeH0zJbNK93ob1wDEUnYwYRg7oM 9SzY4JcmYXKqfvDaPzEgu6MuWR43QEi+dK0F8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=L1IslSMYOvG0JlVOClA+zWCP4Ml9yYjccb5v8qZiVGb59s0KDu12fxODqno/cPJK3N VcAPyVnso3hbGFGQbvvgecolJep3rHrqcob4QrFQ6l0bkKTqKHiZSWn4D+p3JkdoSgAE a0A8GEfqdFapmjZv6ho0pMsv9wqnB8ih5pmDI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.44.209 with HTTP; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 07:54:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1271514394.98060.9.camel@localhost> References: <20100416130731.58548adc@scorpio.seibercom.net> <1271514394.98060.9.camel@localhost> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:54:45 +0000 Received: by 10.231.157.68 with SMTP id a4mr1038426ibx.78.1271516085613; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 07:54:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: From: Brandon Gooch To: Sergio de Almeida Lenzi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: David DEMELIER , freebsd-questions 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 15:18:04 -0000 On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote: > Em S=E1b, 2010-04-17 =E0s 10:13 +0200, David DEMELIER escreveu: > >> 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. >> >> 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