conky and internet

In new chalet OS 16.04 conky does not measure internet traffic, up and down speeds are always zero, any idea why?

Does your computer internet card use Broadcom drivers for connection?
Are you connecting to the internet through Wifi or Ethernet?

I have ChaletOS in Virtual Machine and the internet through Ethernet.

go in virtualbox settings. under "network" tab give us a screenshot so we can know what type of virtual adapter you are using

Down speed : ${downspeed eth0}
Total : ${totaldown eth0}
Up speed : ${upspeed eth0}
Total : ${totalup eth0}

This will give you wired network speeds and totals, you can change the network adapter to suit your own adapters address.

FWIW, in my install on real hardware, the ethernet connection is enp2s0. There is no eth0 so the config file may not be looking for the right device name. Using the terminal enter the command:

ifconfig

This should tell what devices are being used.

peter2005 wrote:I have ChaletOS in Virtual Machine and the internet through Ethernet.

what host os?

bluphoenyx wrote:FWIW, in my install on real hardware, the ethernet connection is enp2s0. There is no eth0 so the config file may not be looking for the right device name. Using the terminal enter the command:

ifconfig

This should tell what devices are being used.

yes, you're right my is 'ens33'. I wonder how are these names created.

I preferred it when they used the standard names of eth0 wlan0 etc... it made life so much easier, maybe they will adapt some sort of uniformity to device names as the software progresses.

Sadly, I can no longer say. It was possible at one time to set an alias for things like this in the module configuration file, but many things have changed over the years. I suspect, but haven't been able to verify, that the changes are due to either the use of systemd or advances in the kernel source codes. I doubt this is a ChaletOS modification.

This is another reason that I use gkrellm. It finds network devices automatically, including those created by virtualbox. At least, there was no problem when installing the monitor in ChaletOS. Sadly, most distributions favor conky instead. Me, I'm just resistant to change and stick to what I'm used to . I put the gkrelm window on the right edge of the monitor where it is quickly visible.

Note that I have not looked at any of the ChaletOS conky configurations to see if they support changing network devices. If so, this can provide an alternative to setting a specific network device.

they do. On mine I have my own configured conky and I have to put in the network ID (for me it is 'wlps40). So to change that is easy with a neat little trick. Open the terminal and run

Code:

ifconfig

and to the left of the columns you'll see the network names of each whether wireless or different ethernet etc. For me it would be wlps40 on my wireless. So then just do this neat little trick. Lets say the conky is on wlps30 and you want it wlps40 just for demo purposes. So you will run this in terminal:

Code:

mousepad .conkyrc

Then you will hit 'search' on the top then 'find and replace' replace 'wlps30' with 'wlps40' on all instances and save the document and exit. I recommend though that you back up the original config before starting. One issue I had when doing that is for some reason it killed the spaces before wlps40 make sure it doesnt do that. If it does then just finish it then replace 'wlps40' with ' wlps40' and that should work.

Of course replace 'wlps40' with your network name from ifconfig

Sorry, I meant automatically choosing the network device like gkrellm does. Because the program requires an edited configuration file, this may not be possible. However, conky is a pretty smart and adaptable application with a lot of options.

oh I see, when it comes to network devices getting into that I blank out

sorry 4 late reply was eating :>

I haven't used gkrelm, I think i will have to take a look.
@James: Changing the network card in the config file is easier than that, simply

Code:

sed -i 's/eth0/wlps40/g' .conkyrc

obviously replace eth0 with what you have in the file and replace wlps40 with your interface id and replace .conkyrc with the name of your conky conkfig file.

u 'n ur conkies! where did you learn this conky stuff?

Just by using them... a lot!! And that last snippet is just a bash command, I do a lot of bash scripting, and python too.

cool, that makes you very valuable on these forums