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Astralogic · February 23, 2014, 11:00am

In iptraf I do believe I’m seeing activity, but it’s a tricky program to read.

robin_listas · February 23, 2014, 8:14pm

On 2014-02-23 11:06, Astralogic wrote:

> In iptraf I do believe I’m seeing activity, but it’s a tricky program to
> read.

There is a page that shows any activity, there is another that counts
how many packages or bytes (total) are sent/received per second.
Perhaps it is too small.

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Astralogic · February 24, 2014, 1:48pm

iptraf seems more compolex then what I’m looking for. I all I want is to see how fast I am currently upload and downloading in kilobytes per second. I literlly don’t need anything else excect those two values. Does Darkstat do that?

malcolmlewis · February 24, 2014, 2:50pm

On Mon 24 Feb 2014 12:56:01 PM CST, Astralogic wrote:

iptraf seems more compolex then what I’m looking for. I all I want is to
see how fast I am currently upload and downloading in kilobytes per
second. I literlly don’t need anything else excect those two values.
Does Darkstat do that?

Hi
Conky will (but you need to create a config…)

Something like: SUSE Paste

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Astralogic · February 25, 2014, 12:27pm

Cool, good old Conky I forgot about that. In YasT I downloaded three packages, conky, conky-doc, conky-feature-nvidia. There are several others but these three are the ones that stand out to me, let me know if I need any other the others. Edit, there were three other dependencies that got auto selected.

malcolmlewis · February 25, 2014, 12:58pm

On Tue 25 Feb 2014 11:36:02 AM CST, Astralogic wrote:

malcolmlewis;2626897 Wrote:
> Hi
> Conky will (but you need to create a config…)
>
> Something like: SUSE Paste
>

Cool, good old Conky I forgot about that. In YasT I downloaded three
packages, conky, conky-doc, conky-feature-nvidia. There are several
others but these three are the ones that stand out to me, let me know if
I need any other the others. Edit, there were three other dependencies
that got auto selected.

Hi
All you need is the conky package. Here is the network section from my
conkyrc which will give you the info you need to create your own.


${voffset -5}
${color2}NETWORK ${voffset -3}${hr 1}${color}
${voffset -5}
${if_up enp37s0}Ethernet: ${addr enp37s0}
Gateway: ${gw_ip}
DNS: ${nameserver 0}, ${nameserver 1}
Down ${downspeed enp37s0} ${alignr}Up ${upspeed enp37s0}
${downspeedgraph enp37s0 20,107} ${alignr}${upspeedgraph enp37s0 20,107}
Total ${totaldown enp37s0} ${alignr}Total ${totalup enp37s0}
${endif}
${if_up wlo1}${voffset -10}Wireless: ${addr wlo1}${alignr}GW: ${gw_ip}
DNS: ${nameserver 0}, ${nameserver 1}
AP: ${wireless_essid wlo1} ${alignr}Speed: ${wireless_bitrate wlo1}
Mode: ${wireless_mode wlo1} ${alignr}Quality: ${wireless_link_qual_perc wlo1}%
Down ${downspeed wlo1} ${alignr}Up ${upspeed wlo1}
${downspeedgraph wlo1 20,107 0000FF 00FF00 -t -l} ${alignr}${upspeedgraph wlo1 20,107 FFFF00 FF0000 -t -l}
Total ${totaldown wlo1} ${alignr}Total ${totalup wlo1} ${endif}

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robin_listas · February 25, 2014, 3:41pm

On 2014-02-24 13:56, Astralogic wrote:
>
> iptraf seems more compolex then what I’m looking for. I all I want is to
> see how fast I am currently upload and downloading in kilobytes per
> second. I literlly don’t need anything else excect those two values.
> Does Darkstat do that?

My intention is not you to use iptraf. Just that you use it to verify that it does see traffic and
speed on the network interface, to see if it gives the same information as gkrellm.

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Astralogic · February 26, 2014, 11:34am

Iptraf does seem to show activity, but so far I haven’t been able to see network activity in ANY other network monitor I’ve tried, including gkrellm, conky, nethogs, and some dektop widgets. I’m now going to try the code pasted above for Conky.

Astralogic · February 26, 2014, 11:41am

malcolmlewis:

Hi
All you need is the conky package. Here is the network section from my
conkyrc which will give you the info you need to create your own.
${voffset -5}
${color2}NETWORK ${voffset -3}${hr 1}${color}
${voffset -5}
${if_up enp37s0}Ethernet: ${addr enp37s0}
Gateway: ${gw_ip}
DNS: ${nameserver 0}, ${nameserver 1}
Down ${downspeed enp37s0} ${alignr}Up ${upspeed enp37s0}
${downspeedgraph enp37s0 20,107} ${alignr}${upspeedgraph enp37s0 20,107}
Total ${totaldown enp37s0} ${alignr}Total ${totalup enp37s0}
${endif}
${if_up wlo1}${voffset -10}Wireless: ${addr wlo1}${alignr}GW: ${gw_ip}
DNS: ${nameserver 0}, ${nameserver 1}
AP: ${wireless_essid wlo1} ${alignr}Speed: ${wireless_bitrate wlo1}
Mode: ${wireless_mode wlo1} ${alignr}Quality: ${wireless_link_qual_perc wlo1}%
Down ${downspeed wlo1} ${alignr}Up ${upspeed wlo1}
${downspeedgraph wlo1 20,107 0000FF 00FF00 -t -l} ${alignr}${upspeedgraph wlo1 20,107 FFFF00 FF0000 -t -l}
Total ${totaldown wlo1} ${alignr}Total ${totalup wlo1} ${endif}
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I replaced all instances of enp37s0 with enp3s0 but when I ran conky nothing happened.

malcolmlewis · February 26, 2014, 1:13pm

Hi
So if you just run the command conky it starts with the default or have you copied the default conkyrc file to your home directory and then appended the network info?

robin_listas · February 26, 2014, 1:28pm

On 2014-02-26 11:36, Astralogic wrote:

> Iptraf does seem to show activity, but so far I haven’t been able to see
> network activity in ANY other network monitor I’ve tried, including
> gkrellm, conky, nethogs, and some dektop widgets. I’m now going to try
> the code pasted above for Conky.

Check the interface names that iptraf shows :-?

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Astralogic · February 27, 2014, 11:38am

Sorry about that, but something did happen. I pressded ALT+F2 and ran the conky command so I didn’t realise there was console output.

calvin@linux-kmee:~> conky
Conky: /home/calvin/.conkyrc: 1: no such configuration: '${voffset'
Conky: /home/calvin/.conkyrc: 2: no such configuration: '${color2}NETWORK'
Conky: /home/calvin/.conkyrc: 3: no such configuration: '${voffset'
Conky: /home/calvin/.conkyrc: 4: no such configuration: '${if_up'
Conky: /home/calvin/.conkyrc: 5: no such configuration: 'Gateway:'
Conky: /home/calvin/.conkyrc: 6: no such configuration: 'DNS:'
Conky: /home/calvin/.conkyrc: 7: no such configuration: 'Down'
Conky: /home/calvin/.conkyrc: 8: no such configuration: '${downspeedgraph'
Conky: /home/calvin/.conkyrc: 9: no such configuration: 'Total'
Conky: /home/calvin/.conkyrc: 10: no such configuration: '${endif}'
Conky: /home/calvin/.conkyrc: 11: no such configuration: '${if_up'
Conky: /home/calvin/.conkyrc: 12: no such configuration: 'DNS:'
Conky: /home/calvin/.conkyrc: 13: no such configuration: 'AP:'
Conky: /home/calvin/.conkyrc: 14: no such configuration: 'Mode:'
Conky: /home/calvin/.conkyrc: 15: no such configuration: 'Down'
Conky: /home/calvin/.conkyrc: 16: no such configuration: '${downspeedgraph'
Conky: /home/calvin/.conkyrc: 17: no such configuration: 'Total'
Conky: missing text block in configuration; exiting
***** Imlib2 Developer Warning ***** :
        This program is calling the Imlib call:

        imlib_context_free();

        With the parameter:

        context

        being NULL. Please fix your program.

I replaced everything in my default config with what you gave me. Is that what I should have done?

malcolmlewis · February 27, 2014, 1:21pm

On Thu 27 Feb 2014 10:46:01 AM CST, Astralogic wrote:

Sorry about that, but something did happen. I pressded ALT+F2 and ran
the conky command so I didn’t realise there was console output.

Code:

calvin@linux-kmee:~> conky
Conky: /home/calvin/.conkyrc: 1: no such configuration: ‘${voffset’
Conky: /home/calvin/.conkyrc: 2: no such configuration:
‘${color2}NETWORK’ Conky: /home/calvin/.conkyrc: 3: no such
configuration: ‘${voffset’ Conky: /home/calvin/.conkyrc: 4: no such
configuration: ‘${if_up’ Conky: /home/calvin/.conkyrc: 5: no such
configuration: ‘Gateway:’ Conky: /home/calvin/.conkyrc: 6: no such
configuration: ‘DNS:’ Conky: /home/calvin/.conkyrc: 7: no such
configuration: ‘Down’ Conky: /home/calvin/.conkyrc: 8: no such
configuration: ‘${downspeedgraph’ Conky: /home/calvin/.conkyrc: 9: no
such configuration: ‘Total’ Conky: /home/calvin/.conkyrc: 10: no such
configuration: ‘${endif}’ Conky: /home/calvin/.conkyrc: 11: no such
configuration: ‘${if_up’ Conky: /home/calvin/.conkyrc: 12: no such
configuration: ‘DNS:’ Conky: /home/calvin/.conkyrc: 13: no such
configuration: ‘AP:’ Conky: /home/calvin/.conkyrc: 14: no such
configuration: ‘Mode:’ Conky: /home/calvin/.conkyrc: 15: no such
configuration: ‘Down’ Conky: /home/calvin/.conkyrc: 16: no such
configuration: ‘${downspeedgraph’ Conky: /home/calvin/.conkyrc: 17: no
such configuration: ‘Total’ Conky: missing text block in configuration;
exiting ***** Imlib2 Developer Warning ***** :
This program is calling the Imlib call:

imlib_context_free();

With the parameter:

context

being NULL. Please fix your program.

I replaced everything in my default config with what you gave me. Is
that what I should have done?

Only copy the info after the TEXT entry in the default config, eg;

http://paste.opensuse.org/42378023

You will need to tweak but lets get the basics working first

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Astralogic · February 28, 2014, 12:10pm

Yes that works now. I see a small black square with the word Network in green

malcolmlewis · February 28, 2014, 2:04pm

On Fri 28 Feb 2014 11:16:02 AM CST, Astralogic wrote:

Yes that works now. I see a small black square with the word Network in
green

Hi
So if you open the config file in an editor and edit the interface
names and save, it should show your interface?

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Astralogic · March 2, 2014, 12:16pm

No it doesn’t work. It must be because my network controller is somewhat unsupported. I’m using the onboard LAN on my MSI GD-65 Gaming motherboard.