Due to the lack of even a simple wireless meter I decided to make my own. The graphics do need work but I felt I would get this out there and see how well it works for others.
It uses D-Bus to discover the wireless device so no configuration is needed, however this does need testing. Additionally it requires sysfs but I do not know if all wireless drivers use this interface reliably.
Anyhow, test away, feel free to comment and even help improve on this!Last changelog:
24/09/2008 - v0.2: Change to HAL net.interface Use appropriate bar functions for drawing the graph. (should now work with SuperKaramba KDE3) Fixed theme size to size of the meter itself.
26/09/2008 - v0.3: Made the meter slimmer and make it look less like a battery monitor. Check if the relevant sysfs file exists.
26/09/2008 - v0.4: Now uses 'net.80211' in FindDeviceByCapability instead of just 'net'
30/09/2008 - v0.5: Now retries wlan device detection if nothing was found first time. eg: in cases where a USB wlan device is plugged in or if manually loading a module after the theme has started.
06/10/2008: Oops, I compressed using bzip and used .gz extension. Now compressed using gzip.
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