On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi <lenzi.ser...@gmail.com> wrote: > Em Sáb, 2010-04-17 às 10:13 +0200, David DEMELIER escreveu: > >> 2010/4/16 Jerry <freebsd.u...@seibercom.net>: >> > Has there been any movement on porting NetworkManager >> > <http://projects.gnome.org/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
Check out net-mgmt/wifimgr, available in ports. It's a graphical front-end for wpa_supplicant. -Brandon _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
