Internet connection status?Forum: Other Help Topics Topic: Internet connection status? started by: RoGuE_StreaK Posted by RoGuE_StreaK on April 28 2004,04:56
HiI 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? Posted by dbennett on 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. Posted by Guest on April 29 2004,04:16
the net monitoring app wmnet works ok for mei 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 |