linkstatus used to work but now it's been replaced by a bunch of wireless_link_* vars. Changing linkstatus to one of these vars now gives upon startup of conky: Conky: unknown variable wireless_link_qual_perc see: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-563401.html
Created attachment 143927 [details] .conkyrc conkyrc with wireless_link_qual_perc
still a problem in conky-1.5.1?
nope, fixed with wifi use flag in 1.5.1