Wireless-applet

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at FreeBSD.org
Tue Mar 28 19:46:08 UTC 2006


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Jono Juggler wrote:
> Interesting. I figured the wireless applet would be a simple thing to
> use in freebsd. I am confused since it seems that there is active work
> on the applet, like this:
> http://monkey.org/freebsd/archive/freebsd-ports-bugs/200501/msg00967.htm
> l

This is the link monitor applet I mentioned previously.

> 
> If people are patching it, I figured they must have it running.
> 
> Does anyone know any sort of graphical client to find and connect to
> available networks? My device driver works, and I can connect at the
> command line. Or is there a way to run the Linux "NetworkManager" in
> FreeBSD:
> http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/

This requires HAL, and will not work on FreeBSD.

Joe

> 
> 
> <-----Original Message-----> 
>> From: Kevin Oberman
>> Sent: 3/28/2006 10:46:21 AM
>> To: jono at mail2Juggler.com
>> Cc: freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org
>> Subject: Re: Wireless-applet 
>>
>>> From: "Jono Juggler" 
>>> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:58:03 -0800 
>>> Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org 
>>>
>>> Hello, 
>>> I have FreeBSD6 with gnomeapplets2 installed. But I cannot find the 
>>> wireless applet when I try to add applets to the panel. How do I
> install 
>>> the wireless-applet? 
>> I believe that the wireless applet is dependent on HAL. The import of 
>> HAL is in progress. Until that is done, any tool depending on it will 
>> not be usable on FreeBSD. 
>> -- 
>> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer 
>> Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) 
>> Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) 
>> E-mail: oberman at es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 
>> . 
> 
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Joe Marcus Clarke
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