Fix the wrong device registered in netstatus applet, and automatically set it to the first working network connection.

I have made a better version, that test if the currently set interface in netstatus applet is really working or not.

#!/bin/sh
# Find the first working network connection and
# configures it.
#
# Joel Bryan T. Juliano <email address hidden>

link="`/sbin/ifconfig | sed -e '/./{H;$!d;}' -e 'x;/[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z]/!d;/RUNNING/!d;' \
       | sed '/^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z]/!d' | sed -n '/^.\{15\}/p' | \
       sed -ne 's/\([a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z][[:digit:]]\).*/\1/p'`"

current_link="`/usr/bin/gconftool-2 -g /apps/panel/applets/applet_0/prefs/interface`"

if [ ! "$link" = "$current_link" ]
then

test_current_link="`/sbin/ifconfig | sed -e '/./{H;$!d;}' -e 'x;/'$current_link'/!d;/RUNNING/!d;' \
       | sed '/^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z]/!d' | sed -n '/^.\{15\}/p' | \
       sed -ne 's/\([a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z][[:digit:]]\).*/\1/p'`"

 if [ -s $test_current_link ]
 then
 /usr/bin/gconftool-2 -t string -s /apps/panel/applets/applet_0/prefs/interface "$link"
 fi
exit 0;
fi

Oops, made some typo, here is the correct version.

#!/bin/sh
# Find the first working network connection and
# configures it.
#
# Joel Bryan T. Juliano <email address hidden>

link="`/sbin/ifconfig | sed -e '/./{H;$!d;}' -e 'x;/[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z]/!d;/RUNNING/!d;' \
       | sed '/^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z]/!d' | sed -n '/^.\{15\}/p' | \
       sed -ne 's/\([a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z][[:digit:]]\).*/\1/p'`"

current_link="`/usr/bin/gconftool-2 -g /apps/panel/applets/applet_0/prefs/interface`"

if [ ! "$link" = "$current_link" ]
then

test_current_link="`/sbin/ifconfig | sed -e '/./{H;$!d;}' -e 'x;/'$current_link'/!d;/RUNNING/!d;' \
       | sed '/^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z]/!d' | sed -n '/^.\{15\}/p' | \
       sed -ne 's/\([a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z][[:digit:]]\).*/\1/p'`"

 if [ ! -s "$test_current_link" ]
 then
 /usr/bin/gconftool-2 -t string -s /apps/panel/applets/applet_0/prefs/interface "$link"
 fi

exit 0;
fi

bash script that sets the correct interface for the netstatus applet.

Thanks for your bug report. I am changing the source package to gnome-netstatus-applet as changes are most likely to be made in that package.

Malone says: "There is no current release for this source package in Ubuntu": "gnome-netstatus-applet"

I'm changing to gnome-netstatus.

Maybe somebody should ask upstream to integrate it somehow?

any news about this? upstream is now maintaining the applet, it'd be a good time to send this upstream, could somebody send it there? thanks.

I've reported the bug upstream. Please attach patches and script to the upstream bug as I cannot reproduce this issue myself.

Marked as confirmed because reported upstream with a fix.