wicd

[Gordon]

Hi all,

I haven't bothered with this or worried about it but it is not working on my machine and I was wondering why. I am only asking now as  I have been trying to display my download and upload speed in conky  and have been struggling with it. I have managed to actually display them now although I am not convinced that that are correct as they differ from what is shown when I us a speed test over the Internet. I have tried several commands to try and find eth0 but they all say that I don't have it but never the less I am using a wired connection to a router. I am connected via Virgin if that makes a difference. Any ideas as to why it doesn't appear to work ?

[PackRat]

post the output of:

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/sbin/ifconfig -a

[hakerdefo]

Hi there Gordon,
Running the following command in terminal will give you the name of interface connected to internet,

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ip route get 8.8.8.8 | awk 'NR==2 {print $1}' RS="dev"


Cheers!!!

[Gordon]

Hi

@ PackRat

As Requested the output of /sbin/ifconfig -a

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enp2s15: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.0.7  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.0.255
        inet6 fe80::21f:d0ff:fe57:a5e9  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether 00:1f:d0:57:a5:e9  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 1340  bytes 1154441 (1.1 MiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 1137  bytes 124602 (121.6 KiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>  mtu 65536
        inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0
        inet6 ::1  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x10<host>
        loop  txqueuelen 0  (Local Loopback)
        RX packets 92  bytes 38956 (38.0 KiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 92  bytes 38956 (38.0 KiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0


@ hakerdefo

Thanks for that and as you can see from PackRat's request the answer is " enp2s15 "

Hope that is usefull chaps and thanks

[PackRat]

Substitute enp2s15 for eth0 in your conkyrc files - should see the net speeds in conky.

[Gordon]

Thanks Folks

I have got the web speeds showing now but wicd still not working

[jedi]

Hey Gordon,
Open up wicd, and on the top right select preferences.  A new window will open and will be opened to the 'General Settings' tab.  The top two boxes are where you put your adapters names, i.e. for wireless, something like wlp3s0 or wlan0, and for wired you'll need to enter enp2s15.  Once you've done this, close the Preferences box, and in the regular wicd screen, at the top click on 'Refresh'.

That should get your wicd running for you.

[Gordon]

Hi  jedi

Sorry for the late reply but been away for a couple of days

Thanks for the info all is working now.

Cheers