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Topic: Internet connection status?, how can I check it?

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Posted: April 28 2004,04:56

Hi
I get connected fine with dial-up, but I can't find anything that gives me info on how long I've been online (I have limited online time), whether there's actually any activity happening or not, or what "speed" I'm connected at.

I HAD thought the little app that loads to the top of the slit was something to do with net monitoring, but I've never had it show anything?

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Posted: April 28 2004,21:12

You're right, wmnet is supposed to be working to show that information. It doesn't work at all on DSL. You can start it yourself at a shell prompt wmnet & and see a little more. Something is trying to happen behind the foreground color, but you can't see enough to know what it is.

Their website (http://www.digitalkaos.net/linux/wmnet/) has some pretty pictures of what it is supposed to be doing.

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Posted: April 29 2004,04:16

the net monitoring app wmnet works ok for me
i have a high speed connection
so any internet activity tends to be a red bar all the way to the top

what i did was copy the enhance perl script file
from /KNOPPIX/usr/bin/enhance
to /home/damnsmall (my home dir)
then i edited it
i put a # in front of the line
system("bbpager &");
because i didn't want the pager
and i changed
system("wmnet -w &>/dev/null &" )
to
system("wmnet -wlx1000000 &>/dev/null &" )
which seems to scale better for me
(tested downloading a fedora iso using wget)
-x140000 also seems to scale well

i start my edited enhance script
from .xinitrc in my home dir
i changed the last lines to this:
mount /mnt/hda5 &
/home/damnsmall/enhance &
fluxbox

in your case
the wmnet plugin may not be working at all
you might be able to get it to work
by trying different options
open a shell and type wmnet --help

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