Thread: How Can I Tell I'm Connected to the Network?
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aleksandyr is offline aleksandyr
2008-03-10 , 18:40
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#4
Originally Posted by brendan View Post
/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.
This doesn't help you if you're not using wlan

Frethop, check out libconic. There's a DBUS call you can make that will report back what you're connected to (if anything). I'll try to get you a command line in a bit...
 

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