GSoC 2015: FreeBSD Port of Network manager

[Kris Moore]

On 03/09/2015 12:16, John Baldwin wrote:
> 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.
>
Yea, we've had the tool in ports for a while now. Also, the -qt4 version
was replaced with -qt5, just a FYI:

http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/pcbsd-utils-qt5

The included network manager supports setting up IPv4/IPv6 on devices,
wifi-scanning / setup, lagg support,  and a handy-tray app to make
connecting super-easy. We had looked at porting over NetworkManager
years ago, but it was so Linux-centric it made more sense for us to
develop something for FreeBSD specifically.


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Kris Moore
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