Hello:

I've been fooling around with conky's options and I wanted to display the wireless info. I used the setup straight for the originical conky as follows:

{color white}Wireless:
${color white}essid: ${wireless_essid eth0}
${color white}IP:${color white} ${addr eth0}
${color white}speed: ${color white} ${wireless_bitrate eth0}
${color white}link strength: ${color white} ${wireless_link_bar 7,50 eth0}


The only thing I changed was eth0 for wlan0 (original) since it seemed to give me an IP address and wicd (under preference for wireless) also lists eth0. However, the only thing I get is an IP adress. It does not recognized the essid name or the link strength.

I'm not sure what else to try.

Thanks.
Pedro

Here is mine it may give you some clues.

${color grey}Wireless:
${color grey}Essid: ${wireless_essid wlan0} ${color grey}IP:${color grey} ${addr wlan0}
${color grey}Signal Strength: ${color grey}${wireless_link_bar 7,125 wlan0}
${color grey}Net Down:${color grey}${downspeedf wlan0}k/s
${color grey}Net Up:${color grey}${upspeedf wlan0}k/s

Thanks for your wireless conky code Erie, but it does not work at all. It even does not return an IP address which I was getting before using eth0 instead of wlan0.

So, is that the clue? Something about the wicd config that I could change? It's odd that eth0 is listed a wireless device in wicd but it seems to be working fine otherwise.

Thanks.
Pedro

Did you try to change wlan0 to eth0 in mine?

Yes, and I got an ip address only, just like in my version.

the funny thing is that wicd will work work (at all; meaning seeing wireless networks) if I have it set up with the wireless device being eth0. shouldnt it be set up to wlan0? But if I do that, wireless will not work (at least not with wicd).

Odd.

thanks.
Pedro

It would depend on the type of adapter you have. Some do show up as eth0 and ath0.