Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 18:23:29 -0300 From: Jesse Smith <jessefrgsmith@yahoo.ca> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port request Message-ID: <1274909009.2444.111.camel@hp-laptop> In-Reply-To: <20100526195611.GA83137@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <1274876344.2444.28.camel@hp-laptop> <20100526195611.GA83137@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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On 2010-May-26 09:19:04 -0300, Jesse Smith <jessefrgsmith@yahoo.ca> wrote: >I was told that requests for new ports should be submitted here. >Unfortunately, you were misled. FreeBSD ports are a volunteer effort >and the general approach is that if you want a port and no-one has >already created it, you probably need to do it yourself. You can find >information on creating a port at >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/index.html I realize there's generally a if you want it, do it yourself approach. And that most people here are volunteers, but I was hoping if interest was expressed, one of those volunteers might take up the task. > There's >one tool which I would like to see brought into the Ports system and >that's Network Manager >(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tools/NetworkManager) > >It's the only networking tool I've found so far which will properly >handle my Novatel mobile modem and I would really like to be able to >make use of the modem while running FreeBSD. >That makes you the first person I've run into with anything positive >to say about NetworkMangler. I don't see the need to intentionally misspell names to get you point across. Come on, let's be civil here. I accept you don't like the software. As for users with something positive to say, there are currently several million people who use NetworkManager on a daily basis. Surely they're not all unhappy with it? >As an alternative to porting NotworkMangler, you might try posting >a description of your modem, version of FreeBSD and problems you are >having to freebsd-questions or maybe freebsd-stable. Thank you, I'll try there. I'd really like to be able to run FreeBSD on my laptop and so far have been blocked by the issue with the modem. >BTW, there's no benefit in reposting the same question to the same list. Sorry, that was my fault. I sent the first e-mail _before_ I received confirmation that I was subscribed to the mailing list. I figured the first message had been filtered out and re-sent after I received confirmation.
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