Re: NetworkManager on FreeBSD

[Jerome Warnier <jwarnier beeznest net>]

Le vendredi 08 juin 2007 à 10:12 -0400, Dan Williams a écrit :
> On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 10:54 +0200, Jerome Warnier wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> > 
> > As a GNOME fanatic (on GNU/Linux at least), I wonder how is
> > NetworkManager for FreeBSD going.
> > As far as I know, HAL is already in good shape, but I think that other
> > dependencies (ex.: wirelesstools) are not.
> 
> We're actually trying to depend less on wireless tools and WEXT by
> moving most of the wireless-specific stuff to wpa_supplicant, which
> works just fine on BSDs.  That's all in 0.7 and later.
And isn't wpa_supplicant WPA-only?
While it does not matter directly for me as I do not plan to put FreeBSD
on it (yet), my Cisco Aironet has a firmware version which doesn't
support WPA.

> Dan
> 
> 
> > Thanks, and keep up the good work.
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