From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 17 14:26:40 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85AA9106566C for ; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:26:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lenzi.sergio@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 309A88FC12 for ; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:26:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws1 with SMTP id 1so177286vws.13 for ; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 07:26:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:subject:from:to:in-reply-to :references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer; bh=FmKdfLxKvbxE4BQ28qKpfbjPnuJlmg7dqz8mHCZKWmM=; b=wPECDiilhZhXAzdm2nwkbB8NRoiHrsxsAh4oUgajoxk3st4biOMP9Hl0M3BX3PkPj5 kYsTZ7Hd0jsACZQuj1djzJHcEgfmY7MaUp0W97cUf4Fz/GZr10csiEm6LaCFBLEZa0Ef E42ityWL/YYtRFAvNHS1QCW+FiahK6ciYfKjc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:from:to:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id :mime-version:x-mailer; b=PBDzgWvyXaOJOD4H9AT4fd2/wRRzL+zB3649MjJpNLONzyq+2FMeqExggORXp+U1zn yOQ9Qf6QWQgyzQQXclo3RGLQnif7L1m7bC+H9mUCUFlTHKADC6twQVA9wxJ/oA/yOBkk YlPZFOFZQ1Wx0oiOGB8lnMjLC//8FyMA5Cpf8= Received: by 10.220.88.81 with SMTP id z17mr2022813vcl.34.1271514399099; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 07:26:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.6.250] ([201.21.146.140]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id s9sm922071vcr.15.2010.04.17.07.26.37 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 17 Apr 2010 07:26:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Sergio de Almeida Lenzi To: David DEMELIER , freebsd-questions In-Reply-To: References: <20100416130731.58548adc@scorpio.seibercom.net> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:26:34 -0300 Message-ID: <1271514394.98060.9.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: Porting NetworkManager to FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:26:40 -0000 Em Sáb, 2010-04-17 às 10:13 +0200, David DEMELIER escreveu: > 2010/4/16 Jerry : > > Has there been any movement on porting NetworkManager > > to FreeBSD? I read > > something awhile ago, I don't remember where, that it was planned for > > the 8.0 release (I think). I have seen it in use on a friends PC, and > > it is really awesome. > > > > Do you really like NM ? Each time I use it it bugs, sometimes it > connects and sometime not. Of course it's great for people who wants > something easy to manage but NM needs the users to connect the X > session. > > wpa_supplicant is really great, it scans access points available and > try to connect them (you can add many networks in your > wpa_supplicant.conf) and then it starts connecting even if you're not > in your X session. > > About the NM port in freebsd I guess we can wait a long time. > > Cheers, > Laptops needs NM badly.. Linux have it, Opensolaris have it... I cannot use FreeBSD 8.0 in my laptops (8 persons in my company) because there is no NM. All the Laptops runs Arch linux... it is a good OS but does not compares to FBSD. That is a thing that is missing... I agree that wpa supplicat is great... so if one can only make a GUI for it... it would make all of us happy too.... Sergio