i3status not showing network information

asked Apr 19 '14

bobbyblues
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Hi,

I just installed i3 on a new laptop and I can get i3status to show the network status.

Using the default configuration file, I see:

no IPv6 | 31,2 GiB | DHCP: no | VPN: no | W: down | E: down | FULL 101,56% | 0,60 | 2014-04-19 18:04:15

However, when running ifconfig, I see that my network cards are not known as wlan0 and eth0. Instead ifconfig gives me wlp6s0 for the wifi card, and enp5s0f2 for the ethernet card. So I modify i3status config file to have:

wireless wlp6s0 {
    format_up = "W: (%quality at %essid) %ip"
    format_down = "W: down"
}

ethernet enp5s0f2 {
    # if you use %speed, i3status requires root privileges
    format_up = "E: %ip (%speed)"
    format_down = "E: down"
}

However, when running i3status after that, no network information shows:

no IPv6 | 31,2 GiB | DHCP: no | VPN: no | | | FULL 101,56% | 0,60 | 2014-04-19 18:09:32

I also tried running i3status as root, but that did not change anything. Did I miss something in the configuration?