Solved NetworkManager on GNOME

chief

chief

Hey guys, im fairly new to using DE on freebsd, after installing gnome i noticed that there is no network manager applet to manage wifi.
Installing pkg install networkmgr doesnt seem to fix that.
Does anyone have any suggestions on getting the laptop DE essentials working ?
Such as sleep, wifi, audio
 
I use XFCE instead of Gnome and my wi-fi is handled in rc.conf, not by some network applet. Just take a look at the handbook on how to configure Wi-fi on FreeBSD.
 
Gnome's NetworkManager doesn't work on FreeBSD because it heavily depends on systemd. I don't use wifi myself but other forum users appear to be happy with net-mgmt/wifimgr.
 
Thanks for replies, i am fine using cli to configure it, i was interested to see what people use for typical laptop setup.
 
twllnbrck said:
There's also net-mgmt/networkmgr, which remains in the tray area of your GNOME top bar.
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Yeah i tried installing that, however no applet shows up, i coudnt find any instructions on how to get it to work in gnome.
It looks like the common way to do this is to use ifconfig wlan0 scan and add pw to wpa_supplicant config, so i may write some cli curses utility to do just that.
 
chief said:
Yeah i tried installing that, however no applet shows up, i coudnt find any instructions on how to get it to work in gnome.
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I think it appears in your systray automatically. But maybe you need an extension for tray icons in GNOME? But of course you can use
wpa_cli(8) if you dont need GUI
 
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