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[209.85.128.173]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 00721157ae682-793c682f499sm29759047b3.27.2026.01.18.03.40.43 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 18 Jan 2026 03:40:43 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-yw1-f173.google.com with SMTP id 00721157ae682-78fba1a1b1eso53404277b3.1 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2026 03:40:43 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 2002:a05:690e:c4f:b0:644:770b:bc61 with SMTP id 956f58d0204a3-6490a61bc64mr9072596d50.19.1768736443065; Sun, 18 Jan 2026 03:40:43 -0800 (PST) List-Id: Using and improving FreeBSD on the desktop List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-desktop List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-desktop@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: From: Gleb Popov Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2026 14:40:15 +0300 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: X-Gm-Features: AZwV_Qicyf74SvMGqcvoC5V6O97Bi7pg0W4LNWAguNyzDAfbOwSUN0fCBaNwL7M Message-ID: Subject: Re: help getting networkmgr running To: Greg Wallace Cc: freebsd-desktop@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spamd-Bar: / X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-0.62 / 15.00]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.88)[-0.878]; NEURAL_SPAM_LONG(0.79)[0.792]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.64)[-0.639]; FORGED_SENDER(0.30)[arrowd@freebsd.org,6yearold@gmail.com]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip4:209.85.128.0/17]; DMARC_POLICY_SOFTFAIL(0.10)[freebsd.org : SPF not aligned (relaxed), No valid DKIM,none]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:15169, ipnet:209.85.128.0/17, country:US]; MISSING_XM_UA(0.00)[]; RWL_MAILSPIKE_POSSIBLE(0.00)[209.85.128.171:from]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; FROM_NEQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[arrowd@freebsd.org,6yearold@gmail.com]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; FREEMAIL_ENVFROM(0.00)[gmail.com]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-desktop@freebsd.org]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; MLMMJ_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-desktop@freebsd.org]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[209.85.128.171:from,209.85.128.173:received] X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4dvBVN4rn9z3gYn On Fri, Jan 16, 2026 at 10:02=E2=80=AFPM Greg Wallace wrote: > > > Hi both! I was thinking that networkmgr was different from the linux util= ity Network Manager, but maybe not? Yes, these are different things. NetworkManager is a Linux-specific daemon. We took a quick stab on porting it at Future Crew, but it turned out to be a lot of work. Porting (or reimplementing) the NetworkManager interface would allow DE native widgets to work for us. For now we're stuck with networkmgr, which is a separate project, not native to KDE Plasma.