2010/5/26 Matthias Andree <mand...@freebsd.org>: > Am 26.05.2010 14:19, schrieb Jesse Smith: >> I was told that requests for new ports should be submitted here. 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. > > Hi Jesse, > > Network Manager (NM) will just automate steps you can do with other means, > too. > It is not doing magic of any kind, and chances are your modem needs firmware > that is available for Linux but not for FreeBSD, but I know nothing about your > Novatel device. > > Regarding a FreeBSD port: > > (a) NM needs major porting efforts, and is an open, non-trivial, project of > the > GNOME team, see <http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/volunteer.html> > > (b) I personally find that NM is an abomination that - particularly on > Laptops - > causes more problems than it could possibly solve for me. > I routinely deinstall NetworkManager from openSUSE, Fedora, and Ubuntu > Linux > distributions, because it frequently fails to configure WPA2-Enterprise with > EAP-TLS or EAP-TTLS, fails to detect online state (making several applications > start in offline mode or refuse to even attempt to connect), fails to > configure > hidden 802.11 (WiFi/WLAN) networks, and causes other artifacts I don't have > without NM. > > I'd personally also say Network Manager needs upstream bugfixing much more > than > a port. Haven't tried Fedora 13 "Goddard" yet though. >
I agree, personally I would prefer a wpa_supplicant / dhclient graphical user interface instead of the sucky NetworkManager. For the moment there is sysutils/wifimgr iirc but it's a quite unstable. wpa_supplicant does everything, scanning for access points automatically even you don't have X running, all WPA means of associations, it's just perfect. -- Demelier David _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
