February 24, 201016 yr I want to be able to monitor my network bandwidth sometimes. But I'm a linux newbie and can't figure out how to install it. installpkg didn't like the file. I saw this post. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=1205.0 It's here also. http://www.gropp.org/?id=projects⊂=bwm-ng
February 27, 201016 yr The package you downloaded is probably the source code, not the compiled program Download from this link http://repository.slacky.eu/slackware-12.1/utilities/bwm-ng/0.6/bwm-ng-0.6-i486-2bj.tgz install with installpkg bwm-ng-0.6-i486-2bj.tgz
March 2, 201016 yr Author Well, I think it's installed. But I guess I'm just too much of a linux dummy to figure out how to run it. I expected bmw-ng would bring up the help for it but nothing is found.
March 2, 201016 yr What do you get when you type bwm-ng I get this: [color=maroon] bwm-ng v0.6 (probing every 0.500s), press 'h' for help input: /proc/net/dev type: rate - iface Rx Tx Total ============================================================================== lo: 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s eth0: 0.11 KB/s 0.34 KB/s 0.46 KB/s ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ total: 0.11 KB/s 0.34 KB/s 0.46 KB/s[/color] you can find a manual page here: http://linux.die.net/man/1/bwm-ng Are you trying to monitor disk performance? or network performance? (default is network performance) For disk performance I use something like this with a list of the disk devices I want to monitor: bwm-ng -T avg -i disk -I sdf,hdb,hdc,hdd,hde,hdf,hdg,hdl,hdk,hda,sde I then get: [color=maroon] bwm-ng v0.6 (probing every 0.500s), press 'h' for help input: disk IO type: avg (30s) \ iface Rx Tx Total ============================================================================== sde: 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s sdf: 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s hde: 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s hdf: 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s hdg: 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s hdk: 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s hdl: 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s hda: 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s hdb: 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s hdc: 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s hdd: 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ total: 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s 0.00 KB/s [/color] Have fun... Joe L.
March 2, 201016 yr Attached is a .conf file for the unmenu package manager: bwm-ng-unmenu-package.conf
March 2, 201016 yr Author What do you get when you type bwm-ng The command isn't found. Maybe it didn't install correctly.
March 2, 201016 yr Author Attached is a .conf file for the unmenu package manager: Remember I'm a total newbie! What does this .conf file do and do I need to install it?
March 2, 201016 yr What do you get when you type bwm-ng The command isn't found. Maybe it didn't install correctly. What does it say when you run the installpkg command to install it?
March 3, 201016 yr Author Finally got it installed. Why does the file end with .gz but have to change it to .tgz to install?
March 3, 201016 yr Finally got it installed. Why does the file end with .gz but have to change it to .tgz to install? It does not end with .gz. Look at the link I gave earlier. It was: http://repository.slacky.eu/slackware-12.1/utilities/bwm-ng/0.6/bwm-ng-0.6-i486-2bj.tgz and it ends in .tgz You should have ended up with a file named: bwm-ng-0.6-i486-2bj.tgz
March 3, 201016 yr Author Finally got it installed. Why does the file end with .gz but have to change it to .tgz to install? It does not end with .gz. Look at the link I gave earlier. It was: http://repository.slacky.eu/slackware-12.1/utilities/bwm-ng/0.6/bwm-ng-0.6-i486-2bj.tgz and it ends in .tgz You should have ended up with a file named: bwm-ng-0.6-i486-2bj.tgz When I download the file it's ending with .gz
March 3, 201016 yr Finally got it installed. Why does the file end with .gz but have to change it to .tgz to install? It does not end with .gz. Look at the link I gave earlier. It was: http://repository.slacky.eu/slackware-12.1/utilities/bwm-ng/0.6/bwm-ng-0.6-i486-2bj.tgz and it ends in .tgz You should have ended up with a file named: bwm-ng-0.6-i486-2bj.tgz Then your program you are using is attempting to uncompress it itself. You should be able to right-click, save-as and download without un-compressing the file or changing the extension. When I download the file it's ending with .gz
March 3, 201016 yr Author Even when I right-click and choose save as it comes out .gz Maybe it's getting unzipped by Win7 automatically or something but I end up with .gz Well at least now I know to watch out for that.
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