[SOLVED] Conky/ifconifg no up/down-speed

Question

Hi,
Conky shows no downspeed or upspeed.
ifconfig also shows no downspeed or upspeed.
iftop does show the speed of up and down traffic.
Eth: 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E2200 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 13)
Box: Linux archbeast 3.13.7-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Mar 24 20:06:08 CET 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux
At the moment of test; downloading 1MB/s and uploading 1MB/s
[thijs@archbeast ~]$ ifconfig
enp3s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 76.83.1.135 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 76.83.1.255
inet6 xx:xx:xx:xx:xx prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
device interrupt 17
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 78483 bytes 16327096 (15.5 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 78483 bytes 16327096 (15.5 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
I think Conky will work when stats are back in ifconfig. When I run Debian 7 or Mint 16 on this machine; all is well.
Cheerio
Last edited by Thijxx (2014-11-17 08:06:31)

Answer 1

I did nothing unusual when following the beginners guide when I installed Arch. BTW, you may want to edit your post and xx out you MAC addy for security reasons. It's not wise to share.
$ ifconfig
enp5s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.14 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
inet6 fe80::76d4:35ff:fe56:ed09 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 13807694 bytes 16561364557 (15.4 GiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 10 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 12601230 bytes 11800214551 (10.9 GiB)
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 643 bytes 42216 (41.2 KiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 643 bytes 42216 (41.2 KiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
My network portion of Conky:
######### NETWORK ###############
${color CC9900}${font Arial:style=Bold}NETWORK ${hr 2}$color$font
${color2}IP on enp5s0: ${color}${alignr}${execi 3600 curl -s http://192.168.1.1|grep 'wan_ipaddr'|awk '{print $1,$2}'|sed 's/<span id="wan_ipaddr">//'|sed 's!</span>&nbsp;!!'}
${color2}Down ${color}$alignr ${downspeedf enp5s0} kb/s
${color2}Up ${color}$alignr ${upspeedf enp5s0} kb/s