I've played around with gdesklets (patch included for interested parties)

[Alexander Leidinger]

Hi,

I've played a little bit around, but I have no time to proceed
further...

Here's a patch for those which want to get useful numbers out of Psi's
Network-0.1.4 tarball... at least it should spit out useful numbers, the
Font<something> desklet is missing, so I wasn't able to fully test it.

---snip---
--- /home/netchild/.gdesklets/Sensors/Network/__init__.py.orig	Sat Sep  6 16:03:47 2003
+++ /home/netchild/.gdesklets/Sensors/Network/__init__.py	Sat Sep  6 16:45:26 2003
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 
 class Network(Sensor):
 
-	def __init__(self, interface = "eth0", interval = "1000"):
+	def __init__(self, interface = "lo0", interval = "1000"):
 		
 		global _; _ = i18n.Translator("memory-sensor")
 		
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 		self._add_thread(self.__command_thread)
 		
 		
-		fd = open("/proc/net/dev", "r")
+		fd = os.popen("ifconfig -a | grep mtu", "r")
 		data = fd.read()
 		fd.close()
 		data = data.splitlines()
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
 			continue
 
 	def __get_net_ip(self,device) :
-		fd = open("/proc/net/arp", "r")
+		fd = popen("ifconfig " + device, "r")
 		data = fd.read()
 		fd.close()
 		lines = data.splitlines()
@@ -69,24 +69,22 @@
 			l = l.strip()
 			fields = l.split()
 			
-			if fields[5]==device:
-				return fields[0]
+			if fields[0]=="inet":
+				return fields[1]
 			
 		return "(no ip for this interface)"
 
 	def __get_net_in_out(self,device) :
-		fd = open("/proc/net/dev", "r")
+		fd = popen("netstat -b -I " + device + " | grep Link", "r")
 		data = fd.read()
 		fd.close()
 		lines = data.splitlines()
 		
 		for l in lines[:]:
 			l = l.strip()
-			l = l.replace(":"," ")
 			fields = l.split()
 			
-			if fields[0]==device:
-				return int(fields[1]),int(fields[9])
+			return int(fields[6]),int(fields[8])
 				
 		print "device not found"
 		return 0,0
---snip---

Bye,
Alexander.

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