On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 18:35 +0200, Jerome Warnier wrote: > 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?
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. _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
