[NTLUG:Discuss] x11 pcmcia network utility

[Kelledin]

On Wednesday 11 June 2003 03:30 pm, kbrannen at verizon.net wrote:
> OK, I'll admit it, I've lost it, literally! :-)
>
> About a year or so ago I had this nifty utility for PCMCIA
> network cards.  It was X11 based, IIRC.  It would show signal
> strength, network throughput, and other nifty-keeno stats, all
> in real-time.
>
> Alas!  I left that company and the utility was on the laptop
> that got turned in.  I don't remember the name of the utility,
> or where I downloaded it from (it was OSS).  Not one of my
> more inspired moments. :-)
>
> Google is no help, at least no when I do it because there are
> thousands of hits for stuff like this, or that least mention
> those words together. :-)  Freshmeat and SourceForge has also
> been less than helpful.
>
> Can anyone help my memory?  Or do you know of a utility like
> this I can adopt? :-)

The original X11-based utility that shipped with pcmcia-cs was 
called cardinfo; that's probably what you're remembering.  AFAIK 
the source code is still included with pcmcia-cs, but it 
requires XForms libraries, which are non-free.

There's some alternatives based on freeware libraries, most 
notably the cardinfo replacement released here:

http://www.ne.jp/asahi/linux/timecop/

-- 
Kelledin
"If a server crashes in a server farm and no one pings it, does 
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