Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 12:42:42 +1200 From: James Butler <sweetnavelorange@gmail.com> To: David DEMELIER <demelier.david@gmail.com>, Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port request Message-ID: <AANLkTilAsQRegqlLMqcNNv3K5mNx-QZolW_9FW0A2jkM@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100528101942.GK36945@e.0x20.net> References: <1274876344.2444.28.camel@hp-laptop> <4BFD19ED.2080303@FreeBSD.org> <AANLkTik5XELQl_KcANB5CUUQnKzZjqszmHpZ4kGWlIBF@mail.gmail.com> <20100528101942.GK36945@e.0x20.net>
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On 28 May 2010 22:19, Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net> wrote: > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:11:10PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote: >> >> I agree, personally I would prefer a wpa_supplicant / dhclient >> graphical user interface instead of the sucky NetworkManager. For the >> moment there is sysutils/wifimgr iirc but it's a quite unstable. >> >> wpa_supplicant does everything, scanning for access points >> automatically even you don't have X running, all WPA means of >> associations, it's just perfect. > > Take a look at this: >> make -C /usr/ports quicksearch name=3Dpcbsd- > Port: =C2=A0 pcbsd-netmanager-8.0_1 > Path: =C2=A0 /usr/ports/net/pcbsd-netmanager > Info: =C2=A0 PC-BSD Networking Utilities for KDE4 > Or (still QT4-based, but doesn't depend on KDE libs) net/wpa_gui - not that I've actually tried it. I briefly had a look at what would be required to implement a basic PyGTK-based wpa_supplicant GUI. One annoying thing is that (arguably) the easiest way for an external app to communicate with wpa_supplicant is via dbus, but wpa_supplicant in FreeBSD is built without dbus support; another option would be to use something like http://projects.otaku42.de/browser/python-wpactrl. -James Butler
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