Conky wireless_bitrate shows 0 kb/s; problem ISN'T Conky

cmtptr · 2009-10-18 14:21:23

I did a "pacman -Syu" last night, and as I've been busy lately I haven't had much time to update, so this was a big one. One minor problem I noticed this morning is that Conky doesn't seem to detect my wireless bitrate with the wireless_bitrate wlan0 variable anymore (it is displaying wireless_link_qual, wireless_essid, and upspeedgraph and downspeedgraph fine, though).

Since the update to Conky was only a change in PKGBUILD revision, I copied my old PKGBUILD (1.7.2-1) from abs, then synced abs and vimdiff'd against the new PKGBUILD (1.7.2-4) hoping to find an obvious difference in the configuration flags, but the only significant change is the addition of a backup field for the configuration files. So, more curious now I tried downgrading to my previous Conky, and it still shows 0 kb/s. I can only guess that this must be a problem with whatever Conky uses to detect that number.

Here is a complete list of what was upgraded:

[2009-10-17 20:10] upgraded pacman (3.3.0-3 -> 3.3.2-1)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded apr (1.3.8-2 -> 1.3.9-1)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded bash (4.0.028-1 -> 4.0.033-1)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded db (4.7.25.4-1 -> 4.8.24-1)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded libsasl (2.1.23-1 -> 2.1.23-2)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded libldap (2.3.43-3 -> 2.4.18-1)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded apr-util (1.3.9-1 -> 1.3.9-3)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded glib2 (2.20.4-1 -> 2.22.2-1)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded atk (1.26.0-1 -> 1.28.0-1)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded bluez (4.39-1 -> 4.56-1)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded curl (7.19.6-1 -> 7.19.6-2)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded conky (1.7.2-1 -> 1.7.2-4)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded pam (1.0.4-1 -> 1.0.4-2)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded consolekit (0.3.0-5 -> 0.3.1-1)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded libcap (2.16-3 -> 2.17-1)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded coreutils (7.5-2 -> 7.6-1)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded e2fsprogs (1.41.8-2 -> 1.41.9-1)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded sqlite3 (3.6.17-1 -> 3.6.18-1)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded heimdal (1.2.1-5 -> 1.2.1-7)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded libcups (1.3.11-1 -> 1.4.1-1)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded poppler (0.10.7-2 -> 0.12.0-1)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded cups (1.3.11-1 -> 1.4.1-1)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded device-mapper (1.02.33-1 -> 2.02.53-1)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded dhcpcd (5.1.0-1 -> 5.1.1-1)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded dialog (1.1_20080819-2 -> 1.1_20080819-3)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded enca (1.10-1 -> 1.11-1)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded fakeroot (1.13-1 -> 1.13.1-1)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded perl (5.10.0-6 -> 5.10.1-3)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded foomatic-db (4.0_20090625-1 -> 4.0.3_20090904-2)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded ghostscript (8.70-1 -> 8.70-2)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded foomatic-filters (4.0_20090625-1 -> 4.0.3_20090904-2)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded foomatic-db-engine (4.0_20090625-1 -> 4.0.3_20090904-2)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded fvwm-devel (2.5.27-2 -> 2.5.28-1)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded pango (1.24.5-1 -> 1.26.0-1)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded gtk2 (2.16.5-1 -> 2.18.2-1)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded gconf (2.26.2-2 -> 2.28.0-1)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded python (2.6.2-5 -> 2.6.3-2)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded gdb (6.8-3 -> 7.0-2)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded git (1.6.4.4-1 -> 1.6.5-1)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded glib (1.2.10-8 -> 1.2.10-8.1)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded libsigc++2.0 (2.2.3-1 -> 2.2.4.2-1)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded glibmm (2.20.1-1 -> 2.22.1-1)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded gnome-keyring (2.26.3-1 -> 2.28.0-1)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded tdb (3.3.7-1 -> 3.3.8-1)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded smbclient (3.3.7-1 -> 3.3.8-1)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded gnome-vfs (2.24.1-2 -> 2.24.2-1)
[2009-10-17 20:20] upgraded gpm (1.20.6-1 -> 1.20.6-3)
[2009-10-17 20:21] upgraded groff (1.20.1-2 -> 1.20.1-3)
[2009-10-17 20:21] upgraded udev (141-5 -> 146-2)
[2009-10-17 20:21] upgraded gstreamer0.10-base (0.10.23-1 -> 0.10.24-1)
[2009-10-17 20:21] upgraded gstreamer0.10-base-plugins (0.10.23-2 -> 0.10.24-1)
[2009-10-17 20:21] upgraded pangomm (2.24.0-1 -> 2.26.0-1)
[2009-10-17 20:21] upgraded gtkmm (2.16.0-1 -> 2.18.2-1)
[2009-10-17 20:21] upgraded vim (7.2.245-1 -> 7.2.266-1)
[2009-10-17 20:21] upgraded gvim (7.2.245-1 -> 7.2.266-2)
[2009-10-17 20:21] upgraded gzip (1.3.12-6 -> 1.3.13-1)
[2009-10-17 20:21] upgraded hplip (3.9.6b-2 -> 3.9.8-2)
[2009-10-17 20:21] upgraded hunspell (1.2.8-1 -> 1.2.8-2)
[2009-10-17 20:21] upgraded iproute2 (2.6.29-1 -> 2.6.29-2)
[2009-10-17 20:21] upgraded kernel26-firmware (2.6.30-1 -> 2.6.31-1)
[2009-10-17 20:21] upgraded module-init-tools (3.10-1 -> 3.10-2)
[2009-10-17 20:22] upgraded kernel26 (2.6.30.6-1 -> 2.6.31.4-1)
[2009-10-17 20:22] upgraded lib32-glib2 (2.20.4-1 -> 2.22.2-1)
[2009-10-17 20:22] upgraded lib32-atk (1.26.0-1 -> 1.28.0-1)
[2009-10-17 20:22] upgraded lib32-db (4.7.25.4-1 -> 4.8.24-1)
[2009-10-17 20:22] upgraded lib32-e2fsprogs (1.41.8-2.1 -> 1.41.9-1)
[2009-10-17 20:22] upgraded lib32-heimdal (1.2.1-5 -> 1.2.1-7)
[2009-10-17 20:22] upgraded lib32-libcups (1.3.11-1 -> 1.4.1-1)
[2009-10-17 20:22] upgraded lib32-pango (1.24.5-1.1 -> 1.26.0-1)
[2009-10-17 20:22] upgraded lib32-gtk2 (2.16.5-1 -> 2.18.2-1)
[2009-10-17 20:22] upgraded libass (0.9.6-2.1 -> 0.9.7-1)
[2009-10-17 20:22] upgraded libbonobo (2.24.1-1 -> 2.24.2-1)
[2009-10-17 20:22] upgraded libgnome (2.26.0-2 -> 2.28.0-1)
[2009-10-17 20:22] upgraded libbonoboui (2.24.1-1 -> 2.24.2-1)
[2009-10-17 20:22] upgraded libgnomeui (2.24.1-1 -> 2.24.2-1)
[2009-10-17 20:22] upgraded libmtp (0.3.7-1 -> 0.3.7-1.1)
[2009-10-17 20:22] upgraded libmysqlclient (5.1.38-1 -> 5.1.39-1)
[2009-10-17 20:22] upgraded lirc-utils (0.8.5-1 -> 0.8.6-1)
[2009-10-17 20:22] upgraded lvm2 (2.02.48-1 -> 2.02.53-1)
[2009-10-17 20:22] upgraded man-pages (3.22-1 -> 3.23-1)
[2009-10-17 20:22] upgraded nvidia (185.18.36-1 -> 185.18.36-2)
[2009-10-17 20:22] upgraded openal (1.8.466-1 -> 1.9.563-1)
[2009-10-17 20:22] upgraded openobex (1.4-1 -> 1.5-1)
[2009-10-17 20:22] upgraded postgresql-libs (8.3.7-2 -> 8.4.1-1)
[2009-10-17 20:22] upgraded redland (1.0.9-2 -> 1.0.9-4)
[2009-10-17 20:22] upgraded openoffice-base (3.1.1-1 -> 3.1.1-2)
[2009-10-17 20:22] upgraded openssh (5.2p1-1 -> 5.3p1-1)
[2009-10-17 20:22] upgraded pygobject (2.18.0-1 -> 2.20.0-1)
[2009-10-17 20:23] upgraded pidgin (2.6.1-1 -> 2.6.3-1)
[2009-10-17 20:23] upgraded pygtk (2.14.1-4 -> 2.16.0-1)
[2009-10-17 20:23] upgraded qt (4.5.2-6 -> 4.5.3-3)
[2009-10-17 20:23] upgraded sdparm (1.03-2 -> 1.04-1)
[2009-10-17 20:23] upgraded subversion (1.6.5-3 -> 1.6.5-5)
[2009-10-17 20:23] upgraded taglib (1.5-1 -> 1.6-1)
[2009-10-17 20:23] upgraded tzdata (2009l-1 -> 2009n-1)
[2009-10-17 20:23] upgraded vlc (1.0.1-2 -> 1.0.2-2)
[2009-10-17 20:23] upgraded wget (1.11.4-2 -> 1.12-1)
[2009-10-17 20:23] upgraded whois (4.7.34-1 -> 4.7.36-1)
[2009-10-17 20:23] upgraded xfsprogs (3.0.1-2 -> 3.0.3-1)

relevant specs:
MSI MS-1640 laptop
Arch x86_64
Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 2.4Ghz
Intel Wireless-N WiFi Link 4965AGN

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Last edited by cmtptr (2009-10-18 14:25:42)

1LordAnubis · 2009-10-19 06:10:16

same here. However, my conky (after I did a big update after not updating for a long time...)
reports exactly twice my actual bitrate
This only happens on my system with an atheros card

Last edited by 1LordAnubis (2009-10-19 12:04:26)

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#1 2009-10-18 14:21:23

Conky wireless_bitrate shows 0 kb/s; problem ISN'T Conky

#2 2009-10-19 06:10:16

Re: Conky wireless_bitrate shows 0 kb/s; problem ISN'T Conky

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