[EdLUG] network connection through Wine

[Matthew Rankine]

DSLstats is somewhat newer, and can run on Linux with no need for Wine.

http://dslstats.me.uk/index.html

On Mon, 9 Nov 2020 at 19:18, Tai Kedzierski <dch.tai at gmail.com> wrote:
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> The Routerstats page is old school enough to actually be a static web page, last generated in 2015 ; doesn't seem to be much development happening in there anymore...
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> Both Wine and Ubuntu have come quite a long way since the 2008 assertion that it "just works", the underlying network stack could have also changed from an API point of view (I believe it did in fact, with the systemd change).
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> What's the overall use case you are trying to achieve? I have a suspicion that RouterStats + modern distro may prove to be inachievable... (though I have no firm data to actually back that up with)
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> On Mon, 9 Nov 2020 at 18:39, Alistair <alistair at archerry.plus.com> wrote:
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>> I am trying to record my ADSL properties using the RouterStats package under
>> Wine.
>> It fails to connect to the modem/router, and I do not know how to check the
>> network connection to help diagnose the problem. (ping is not available in the
>> Wine command terminal.)
>> A thread on the kitz.co.uk forum (How to run Routerstats in Linux) from March
>> 2008 suggests that it just works, but the best I can get from the package is
>> "please wait.Connecting to the...".
>> The desktop I am using is running kubuntu 18.04.
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>> How do I diagnose and correct this issue?
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>> Regards,
>>
>> Alistair
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