GSoC 2015: FreeBSD Port of Network manager

[John Baldwin]

On Friday, March 06, 2015 03:06:31 PM Allan Jude wrote:
> On 2015-03-06 15:00, Gokul Krishna wrote:
> > Hi
> > I am currently studying 2nd year of masters in embedded systems at KTH
> > Royal institute of technology , sweden.
> > I have around 2 and half years of experience in embedded linux and device
> > drivers projects.
> > I have reasonably good working and debugging knowledge of Char/Block/
> > Network drivers in Linux and their implementation. Also Im familiar about
> > working knowledge of Realtek 8139 network device driver in Linux.
> > So I am interested to work in this project "FreeBSD porting of Network
> > manager".
> > Kindly explain me about the expected deliverables,  i need to contribute
> > for this project , So I will start working for project plan with list of
> > Milestone task and design decisions for mid term deliverables and final
> > deliverables.
> > Kindly reply me.
> > thanks and regards
> > gokul
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> 
> There is a network manager in PCBSD that works on FreeBSD, already in
> the ports tree. You might want to make sure there is some advantage to
> network manager before doing the work.
> 
> the PCBSD Network Manager is part of: sysutils/pcbsd-utils-qt4
> 
> http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/pcbsd-utils-qt4

Note that if this tool is sufficient, we really shouldn't have this idea on 
the GSoC ideas list.

-- 
John Baldwin