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	Benson	2008-03-10 , 18:34
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Originally Posted by brendan

/sbin/ifconfig wlan0

will give you an IP address, if you are connected. also, the RX/TX counters will not be 0. you should not need root access for this.

Don't know what exact result you're after; if you want to use it in a shell conditional, grep it for UP, like this for wlan0:

Code:

if [ "x`/sbin/ifconfig wlan0 |grep UP`" != x ] ; then
  echo 'Connection'
else
  echo 'No connection'
fi

I don't know what interface BT connections show up as; but something like (if it were bt0):

Code:

if [ "x`/sbin/ifconfig wlan0 |grep UP`" != x ] || [ "x`/sbin/ifconfig bt0 |grep UP`" != x ] ; then
  echo 'Connection'
else
  echo 'No connection'
fi

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