'wireless link monitor' applet

laurentbon · 11-03-2003, 11:58 AM

I would like to monitor the quality of the wireless link and the transfer rate.
Gnome comes with a small app to monitor wireless connection, but it refuses to work on eth1 which is configured using iwconfig (it returns, no wireless connection), that is with the Prism Duette based pmcia card (802.11g installed with the driver from http://prism54.org/).
Is there a way to make it work?
Alternatively, is there another app I can use?
Thanks
L

EDIT: The app I am talking about is 'wireless link monitor' applet!

2Gnu · 11-03-2003, 04:26 PM

KDE and wireless tools are needed, but KWiFiManager does just what you are asking.

akaBeaVis · 11-03-2003, 06:48 PM

10 to 1 that applet monitors /proc/net/wireless, does any info show up when you type cat /proc/net/wireless in a console as root? If not, then perhaps the driver has not yet gotten to the point of adding /proc support, check their forum for that. As stated KWifiManager works with all of my wireless cards, but seems to be hard-coded to stop at 11Mbps, so you still have to edit your config file by hand to go with any higher rate. I'm thinking you're using gnome though so kwifi isn't going to help.

h/w · 11-03-2003, 07:52 PM

try wavemon - it should do it as its just reading odd /proc/net/dev|wireless

laurentbon · 11-04-2003, 04:45 AM

Thank you all for your massive help! Will play with it tonight and as I use Gnome, will give wavemon a try..
Cheers!
L

laurentbon · 11-04-2003, 12:50 PM

Wavemon doesn't seem to work either...
Whenever I run it, whatever the options, it returns:
fatal error: no wireless interfaces found!

h/w: do you know if I am supposed to creathe .wavemonrc file in my home directory from scratch. Documentation is very scarce...

btw: cat /proc/net/wireless doesn't list any device... just colum headers