[X-POST] Anyone porting NetworkManager to FreeBSD ?
Hi all, Is there anyone, who is porting NetworkManager[1] to FreeBSD ? If yes, I would like to be a tester or contributor to the effort. References: [1] - http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/ Thanks Ashish Shukla -- ·-- ·- ·--- ·- ···- ·- ·--·-· --· -- ·- ·· ·-·· ·-·-·- -·-· --- -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against HTML e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments pgprYbeJOpmoj.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [X-POST] Anyone porting NetworkManager to FreeBSD ?
On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 03:26 +0530, Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there anyone, who is porting NetworkManager[1] to FreeBSD ? If yes, I > would like to be a tester or contributor to the effort. It's been on our ideas list for a while, and I think someone mentioned they were working on it a few months ago (check the archives). I held a desktop discussion at the last BSDCan, and Kris Moore of PC-BSD suggested it may be easier to port their network manager (http://svn.pcbsd.org/browser/pcbsd/trunk/NetworkManager) from KDE to GTK+/GNOME In the meantime, I did a GNOME PBI for PC-BSD, and added hooks to make use of some of PC-BSD's admin tools. The result was positive. However, it would be great to have working GTK+/GNOME native tools. Joe > > References: > [1] - http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/ > > Thanks > Ashish Shukla -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [X-POST] Anyone porting NetworkManager to FreeBSD ?
I was thinking about porting it, because I really need this thing on my laptop and to have some programming experience. I just wanted to have a companion, because I'm not sure I can handle this by myself and because I'm pretty lazy these days, so I need to feel responsibility :) Anyone interested? 2008/9/21 Joe Marcus Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 03:26 +0530, Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Is there anyone, who is porting NetworkManager[1] to FreeBSD ? If yes, I >> would like to be a tester or contributor to the effort. > > It's been on our ideas list for a while, and I think someone mentioned > they were working on it a few months ago (check the archives). I held a > desktop discussion at the last BSDCan, and Kris Moore of PC-BSD > suggested it may be easier to port their network manager > (http://svn.pcbsd.org/browser/pcbsd/trunk/NetworkManager) from KDE to > GTK+/GNOME > > In the meantime, I did a GNOME PBI for PC-BSD, and added hooks to make > use of some of PC-BSD's admin tools. The result was positive. However, > it would be great to have working GTK+/GNOME native tools. > > Joe > >> >> References: >> [1] - http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/ >> >> Thanks >> Ashish Shukla > -- > PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc > -- Best wishes, me. ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: [X-POST] Anyone porting NetworkManager to FreeBSD ?
Joe Marcus Clarke writes: > On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 03:26 +0530, Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Is there anyone, who is porting NetworkManager[1] to FreeBSD ? If yes, I >> would like to be a tester or contributor to the effort. > It's been on our ideas list for a while, and I think someone mentioned > they were working on it a few months ago (check the archives). I held a > desktop discussion at the last BSDCan, and Kris Moore of PC-BSD > suggested it may be easier to port their network manager > (http://svn.pcbsd.org/browser/pcbsd/trunk/NetworkManager) from KDE to > GTK+/GNOME > In the meantime, I did a GNOME PBI for PC-BSD, and added hooks to make > use of some of PC-BSD's admin tools. The result was positive. However, > it would be great to have working GTK+/GNOME native tools. Thanks for the reply. But, that looks like a static network configuration tool. Ashish -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against HTML e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments ·-- ·- ·--- ·- ···- ·- ·--·-· --· -- ·- ·· ·-·· ·-·-·- -·-· --- -- % dig +short cname cdac.in @::1 microsoft.gov.in pgp4pb2cO0rRG.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [X-POST] Anyone porting NetworkManager to FreeBSD ?
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 11:22 +0530, Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote: > Joe Marcus Clarke writes: > > On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 03:26 +0530, Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> Is there anyone, who is porting NetworkManager[1] to FreeBSD ? If yes, I > >> would like to be a tester or contributor to the effort. > > > It's been on our ideas list for a while, and I think someone mentioned > > they were working on it a few months ago (check the archives). I held a > > desktop discussion at the last BSDCan, and Kris Moore of PC-BSD > > suggested it may be easier to port their network manager > > (http://svn.pcbsd.org/browser/pcbsd/trunk/NetworkManager) from KDE to > > GTK+/GNOME > > > In the meantime, I did a GNOME PBI for PC-BSD, and added hooks to make > > use of some of PC-BSD's admin tools. The result was positive. However, > > it would be great to have working GTK+/GNOME native tools. > > Thanks for the reply. > > But, that looks like a static network configuration tool. Sorry, wrong link. There are a few network admin tools in PC-BSD (including a task tray application). Here is their wireless config app: http://svn.pcbsd.org/browser/pcbsd/trunk/wificonfi . The advantage of using the PC-BSD code is that the FreeBSD internal stuff is done already. That could could be used as a model for creating a GTK+/GNOME frontend. On the other hand, porting NM would require adapting it to your net80211 stack. Joe > > Ashish -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [X-POST] Anyone porting NetworkManager to FreeBSD ?
> I was thinking about porting it, because I really need this thing on > my laptop and to have some programming experience. I just wanted to > have a companion, because I'm not sure I can handle this by myself and > because I'm pretty lazy these days, so I need to feel responsibility Myself and Ashish are working on a library (libroute) that basically abstracts out the various interfaces offered by different kernels to interact with routing tables, etc.. Currently NetworkManager uses libnl [1], which is a wrapper over the Linux kernel's PF_NETLINK socket interface, but its entirely Linux specific. So libroute will have a backend for PF_NETLINK (using libnl), one for PF_ROUTE, and so on. Once we have the required functionality, we intend to modify NetworkManager so that it calls libroute instead of libnl. The initial code is available here: git://bombadil.infradead.org/~rishi/inetutils.git (see libroute/ and route/) I must say that libroute is still in the initial stages of developement. :-) Interested? Happy hacking, Debarshi [1] http://people.suug.ch/~tgr/libnl ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: [X-POST] Anyone porting NetworkManager to FreeBSD ?
> Yep, I'm interested. :) Awesome. Clone the Git tree start hacking. Ashish is working on a patch to add IPv6 support to BSD's show function (see bsd_show.c), while I am reworking the Linux backend to use libnl instead of mucking with PF_NETLINK directly. The immediate TODO items are to implement 'add' and 'delete' support for BSD. Happy hacking, Debarshi ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
