Wireless interface status #367
Description
Currently it seems if a (wireless) interface does not have an IP protocol address, i3status treats it as "down". An interface which does not have a protocol address may or not be down, and in case it is up I want to be able to display information about it.
My current use case:
On laptop I run a link aggregation between built-in wireless card and Ethernet adapter. I do this because is currently the best way to use an Ethernet card when plugged in, wireless otherwise using just one protocol address and without worrying with DHCP route metrics to prefer the Ethernet card.
In this scenario the wireless interface does not have a protocol address. The protocol address is set on the bond0 interface in Linux . However the wireless interface still has meaningful interface which I like to display, namely the SSID and signal strength.
Please consider changing i3status in a way that decouples interface status from protocol addresses.