Porting NetworkManager to FreeBSD

Alejandro Imass ait at p2ee.org
Sat Apr 17 13:20:03 UTC 2010


On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 4:13 AM, David DEMELIER
<demelier.david at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/4/16 Jerry <freebsd.user at 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.
>

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,
>
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> Demelier David
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