I am running openSUSE 11.3 on T42 Thinkpad and rely on wifi in soho environment where signal strength is very variable.

I had the PyWiFi plasmoid working well with previous version of kde. After upgrading to 4.5.2 this plasmoid was replaced by another in the new grey (retrograde) format which does not, at a glance clearly indicate signal strength.

I wish to restore the PyWiFi plasmoid which does clearly show signal strength without having to hover the cursor over it. I have the dataengine installed and can drop the PyWiFi plasmoid into the system tray but I cannot get to any configuration tools in order to associate it with my wifi card.

Can anybody please help here.

I assume you are referring to http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=122974
If so have you installed http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=122973

The documentation makes reference to "iwconfig" as well, so please make sure that is installed, and in your user path ( run 'which iwconfig' in Konsole )

bcooksley wrote:I assume you are referring to http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=122974
If so have you installed http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=122973

The documentation makes reference to "iwconfig" as well, so please make sure that is installed, and in your user path ( run 'which iwconfig' in Konsole )

Many thanks once again. As I stated earlier I have the data engine installed.
I thought I had edited line 40 as directed but I am not sure of the syntax and may have done it wrong. My line 40 now reads:-
blob = commands.getoutput("/usr/sbin/iwconfig " + interface)


I have iwconfig in /usr/sbin. If I run which iwconfig it is not found. Not sure how to change path but surely the absolute path is used in line 40 above so why does the file have to be in environment?

Forgive beginners questions please.
Thanks again,
Budgie2

Ok, that should be fine, as the path is absolute. If you run the absolute path in Konsole, what is the output?

bcooksley wrote:Ok, that should be fine, as the path is absolute. If you run the absolute path in Konsole, what is the output?

Not sure what you mean by run here but the output from which iwconfig is :-

which iwconfig
which: no iwconfig in (/home/alastair/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/jvm/jre/bin)

If I run iwconfig I get :-
Absolute path to 'iwconfig' is '/usr/sbin/iwconfig', so running it may require superuser privileges (eg. root).

Where should I go from here?

Many thanks again,
Budgie2

If you run "/usr/sbin/iwconfig" what is output?

bcooksley wrote:If you run "/usr/sbin/iwconfig" what is output?

This looks more promising:-
/usr/sbin/iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11abg ESSID:"wireless-g"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:1D:B3:4B:AE:14
Bit Rate=36 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=49/70 Signal level=-61 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0


Grateful for your help with this. What next?
Regards,
Budgie2

Please paste the output of the following:

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cat /proc/net/wireless | tail -n1 | awk '{print$1}' | cut -d: -f1

It should return:

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wlan0

bcooksley wrote:Please paste the output of the following:

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cat /proc/net/wireless | tail -n1 | awk '{print$1}' | cut -d: -f1

It should return:

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wlan0

Hi, yes, wlan0 is what I get.

Unfortunately I don't know why it isn't working. I assume the KDE Python bindings are installed?

Did you install the dataengine using

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plasmapkg -t dataengine -i <file>

?

einar wrote:Did you install the dataengine using

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plasmapkg -t dataengine -i <file>

?

Yes I did.
I have decided to switch back to kde 4.4.4 which comes from the openSUSE repo site. I think there were real problems with the many lib packages and I shall wait until kde 4.5 is supported by openSUSE.

Many thanks for your help.
Regards,
Budgie2

It is probable the Plasma bindings were not upgraded, rendering them incompatible, causing them to not be loaded, either partly or completely.