Re: Re: Re: [dev] Fwd: OT:GUI wireless connections management?

From: Kurt H Maier <karmaflux_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 11:36:44 -0400

On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Kris Maglione <maglione.k_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> You could always try FreeBSD. They've had UTF-8 support since version 5. The
> ifconfig isn't quite as good as OpenBSD's, though. It doesn't handle WPA
> internally (but, then, given OpenBSD's focus on crypto, it's not surprising
> that its does where others' don't).

FreeBSD doesn't support UTF-8 in the console. It only does UTF-8 in X11.

On the wireless management side, FreeBSD comes with wifimgr[1], which
is pretty nice, even if it's just a GUI wrapper around editing
wpa_supplicant.conf.

[1] http://opal.com/freebsd/ports/net-mgmt/wifimgr/

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# Kurt H Maier
Received on Sun May 30 2010 - 15:36:44 UTC

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