Re: help getting networkmgr running

>  Tnx for confirming. Where I am stuck is I
> have in installed but I can't seem to get it
> to run or to show up in the tray
>
>
> ---
> Greg Wallace

I encountered the desktop environment issues Greg. This is on KDE Plasma Desktop. Charlie is correct we do have networkmgr.

To add to improving laptop/PC desktop for mobile computing, I also have wifimgr running and installed wifibox.

Still validating my WiFi setup on FreeBSD 15.0 releases

wifimgr(8) - https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=wifimgr&sektion=8&manpath=freebsd-release-ports

freebsd-wifibox - https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox

Kind regards,
Robert


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From: owner-freebsd-desktop@FreeBSD.org <owner-freebsd-desktop@FreeBSD.org> on behalf of Gleb Popov <arrowd@freebsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2026 5:40:15 AM
To: Greg Wallace <gwallace@netactuate.com>
Cc: freebsd-desktop@freebsd.org <freebsd-desktop@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: help getting networkmgr running

On Fri, Jan 16, 2026 at 10:02 PM Greg Wallace <gwallace@netactuate.com> wrote:
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>
> Hi both! I was thinking that networkmgr was different from the linux utility 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.