netspeed applet falls back to wmaster0 when no interfaces are connected.

[Chow Loong Jin]

Binary package hint: netspeed

On systems with iwlwifi drivers, there is a "wmaster0" device. When both eth0 and wlan0 get disconnected, netspeed-applet falls back upon wmaster0. This is quite irritating, as wmaster0 doesn't show any data transfer at all, and netspeed just shows 0 B/s. I believe wmaster0 should be blacklisted as a device so that netspeed doesn't fall back upon it when eth0 and wlan0 are disconnected.

[Matti Viljanen (direc85)]

I have the same issue using 8.10 and iwl3945. Netspeed sometimes starts to monitor wmaster0 device, even though wlan0 is the right choise.

Workaround is to untick the automatic selection, but this requires change every time connected device changes.

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 11:02 +0000, Matti Viljanen wrote:
> I have the same issue using 8.10 and iwl3945. Netspeed sometimes starts
> to monitor wmaster0 device, even though wlan0 is the right choise.
>
> Workaround is to untick the automatic selection, but this requires
> change every time connected device changes.
>
> ** Changed in: netspeed (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Confirmed
>
Actually, I haven't seen this issue after the upgrade to Intrepid.
--
Chow Loong Jin

[Matti Viljanen (direc85)]

I discovered a way to treat wmaster devices as dummy devices, but Loic Minier nailed it in June already. Darn, I'm still too slow. :-P:

>netspeed (0.14-3) unstable; urgency=low
>
> * Rename patch applet_category_fix to 20_applet_category_fix to have some
> sorting.
> * New patch, 60_wmaster0, ignore interfaces named wmaster*; proposed by
> Johannes Rohr; closes: #461373.
>
> -- Loic Minier <email address hidden> dim, 29 jun 2008 21:05:16 +0200