Re: NetworkManager on FreeBSD

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 18:35 +0200, Jerome Warnier wrote:
> Le vendredi 08 juin 2007 �0:12 -0400, Dan Williams a �it :
> > 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?

No.  NM uses wpa_supplicant for _all_ 802.11 wireless access, both
unencrypted, WEP, and WPA.

> 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.

NM still uses wpa_supplicant to manage your connection regardless.

Dan

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