Hi ,
OpenSolaris / Illumos had/has a network connection switching
tool for laptops in place 15 years ago.
As OpenSolaris was made Opensource. the tool
should be possibible to adapt to FreeBSD.
//Lars
Den 2025-10-15 kl. 10:11, skrev Alice Sowerby:
Hi ykla,
Sorry that it has taken so long to respond. I had an email filter
incorrectly set and missed your message.
Thanks for the suggestion. The Foundation's laptop project's scope
doesn't currently include this functionality, but it's good to hear
about what people are looking for from the laptop experience as this
can inform any future work that the Foundation commissions.
In the meantime, the best place to seek support for new laptop
functionality is to attend the Laptop and Desktop Working Group [1]
where a list of in-progress community and Foundation laptop work is
being maintained, and new items may be added.
I hope this helps,
Alice.
[1] https://wiki.freebsd.org/LaptopDesktopWorkingGroup
On Mon, Sep 1, 2025 at 8:40 AM ykla <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
Currently, FreeBSD lacks proper support for tools such as
NetworkManager, plasma-nm, and nmcli. This has caused a very serious
impact on laptop and desktop users. Switching networks often requires
many command-line steps to complete, which is inconvenient and
unfriendly for daily use.
At the moment, the only similar software available is
net-mgmt/networkmgr, but unfortunately this tool is almost unusable.
It has many bugs, and its maintenance is not active.
I sincerely hope that in the future FreeBSD can have a tool similar to
NetworkManager (with GUI integration such as plasma-nm and CLI tools
like nmcli), which would significantly improve the user experience for
laptop and desktop users.
Thank you very much for your attention.
ykla
